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BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh Users Group) should be on your radar. I was a passive member but it got me into the computing industry working for a well known Mac net

BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh Users Group) should be on your radar. I was a passive member but it got me into the computing industry working for a well known Mac networking company at the time.

chairmanmow 7y ago
I'm familiar with Stanford having a similar group, SMUG, and although I wasn't a member, it looks like they still exist : https://www.pa-smug.org https://www.pa-smug.org
spenrose 7y ago
An important Google developer who created a product most of you use was a BMUG member, as was a current Siri developer, a former head of MacOS ... devrel IIRC, and others. BMUG probably deserves some credit for my own 20 year career as a programmer.
ridiculous_fish 7y ago
BMUG here too. The newsletters (dead-tree encyclopedias) were amazing snapshots of the aspirations of 90s tech, very glad I kept them. There's an article about "creating your own Web pages", from 1995! https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/1112049889096032256 https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/11120498890960322...