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Hey all, Quick/friendly reminder that this is a dangerous conversation to be having in public -- there is no telling what will happen to old comments in a few
by undoware 5y ago
Hey all,
Quick/friendly reminder that this is a dangerous conversation to be having in public -- there is no telling what will happen to old comments in a few years (or decades,) when the disruption is further along.
Quite serious. History tends to happen when you least expect it to.
Personal web history, doubly so.
- undoware 5y agoThis got downvoted, so it's anecdote time! A former employer once forwarded me a deep-dive article about a guy who was archiving old '90s usenet posts. He explained the process by reference to a sample post, chosen at random, from the whole of the Usenet, '91-'99. That guy's sample-post? A one-off I'd made, complaining bitterly about JDK licensure or something, from around 1998, when I was a loudmouth teenage Stallmanite. It now occasionally comes up for discussion during job interviews. It came up when I applied for a work visa to USA. Stay safe, and don't let your next job interview turn to the topic of [checks notes] resource-efficient weapons of mass destruction.