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The say Steve Jobs died, every single story was about that. Not complaining, the day was treated well this way.
by kzrdude 6y ago
The say Steve Jobs died, every single story was about that. Not complaining, the day was treated well this way.
- graderjs 6y agoActually: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05
- kzrdude 6y agoAlso look at https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-06 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-06
- polote 6y agoand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078988
- graderjs 6y agoWOw pretty good memory you guys! I see you were watching HN that day. I don't think I even knew what HN was then. I find it ironic, or fitting, that the 30th story on Oct 6 2011 is actually about Flash, a thing that died relatively soon after, in no small part due to Steve!
- DrJokepu 6y agoIn fact, I learned about it from Hacker News! Someone posted it here as a “self” post a good 20 minutes before news outlets or even Apple reported it.
- hluska 6y agoSame here. I’ll never forget walking into my boss’s office with the news. We ended up grabbing our iPods (remember those) and going for a walk together in our music. That was a sad day but a special moment in my career.
- graderjs 6y agoI was eating at a campus canteen in a research institute in East Asia. And I saw it on TV. It was weird. I remember where I was on 9/11 and for that.
- cameroncf 6y agoI found out while sitting in a hotel lobby at Abode's MAX conference in LA. Watching the news ripple through the tech crowd attending was something.