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> I feel like an old hippie, trying to tell people what Woodstock was like and why it was special, only to see their confusion and lack of really getting it. U
by throwawaylinux 5y ago
> I feel like an old hippie, trying to tell people what Woodstock was like and why it was special, only to see their confusion and lack of really getting it.
Until you looked at old usenet / mailing list archives and realized you were already well into the eternal September by that stage!
(I'm being a bit facetious -- I think all eras have their pluses and minuses, comp.* etc heyday was before my time but it was quite amazing to see some of the in depth discussions and names involved. That's where the infamous Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate took place for example, and it was not uncommon to see CPU and operating system and other software designers from different organizations debating everything from kernels to TCP/IP enhancements to compiler theory to TLBs. Generally under their real names.)
- rasz 5y agoYes, usenet, good old deeply technical discussions like "Have you ever kissed a girl?" https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/wCd7fHnzHjw/m/VlRbqq6HIyQJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sun.hardware/c/wCd7fHnz... by Sun employee Bryan Cantrill (dtrace) :)
- throwawaylinux 5y agoSee, even the flamewars were more epic back then. And yes I'm aware of that comment and it's a personal favorite of mine. Not the message by itself, but in the context the tantrum is the ultimate tacit surrender and humiliation of the big professional corporate clunky slow old proprietary OS to this open source upstart. Miller's post was pretty strong out of the gate ("Solaris is a pig") but it had a lot of interesting technical content.