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Wow, the world was such a different place back then. When this was written, the dotcom bubble hadn't even fully collapsed. Just two weeks later, NASDAQ would hi
by xwdv 6y ago
Wow, the world was such a different place back then. When this was written, the dotcom bubble hadn't even fully collapsed. Just two weeks later, NASDAQ would hit a peak of about 5048.62 before tumbling all the way 1139. America still believed itself to be invincible, as 9/11 hadn't even happened yet and airport security was fairly relaxed, and Enron was still considered a decent company.
How naive they were.
- katzgrau 6y agoWe'll always be naive, because there will always be really important things we don't know and therefore can't account for.
- xwdv 6y agoYes, but given everything that's about to happen to those people, the technical difficulties with some fledgling operating system seem so distant now. Many people who posted in that thread are no longer even alive probably.
- ironmagma 6y agoWhat are you proposing as the alternative? Even after major catastrophe we would still want to be involved in the trivialities of OSes, as we are now amid the pandemic.
- ubermonkey 6y ago"Enron was still considered a decent company." This part wasn't true. I lived then, as I do now, in Houston. In 2000, I was a partner in a custom software/internet technology professional services company. (Back then, you could charge lots of money to help people build intranets; it was GREAT!) Enron had bids out all over to do custom work for them, but it was also super common knowledge -- at least locally -- that if you wanted to get paid, you needed to insist on a fat retainer, because Enron absolutely would not pay on time, or maybe ever if they thought they could get away with stiffing you.
- xwdv 6y agoWow, I never knew.