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It's worth noting that Raph Levin (who this letter was a reply to) tackled many of the same problems that plague social media these days with the wonderful but
by nl 4y ago
It's worth noting that Raph Levin (who this letter was a reply to) tackled many of the same problems that plague social media these days with the wonderful but now sadly mostly forgotten Advogato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
- raphlinus 4y agoAnd to add more continuity to the circle, here is a short memorial I posted to Advogato on Dijkstra's death, just over 20 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20170629060656/http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/252.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170629060656/http://www.advoga...
- 082349872349872 4y agoWow; that looks familiar! I think your memorial is what got me started reading EWDs, all those decades ago. They eventually convinced me that my systems bias had been a giant shoulder-chip, and that theory folk also had something worth exploring. Thanks for having written it.
- sureglymop 4y agoThis looks incredibly cool! Crazy to think there were many good things on the internet that i just missed because they came before my time and I'll now never get to experience them.