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The CmdrTaco of the modern age. Thanks for your hard work.
by soVeryTired 4y ago
The CmdrTaco of the modern age. Thanks for your hard work.
- h2odragon 4y agoOOff i dunno if that's the compliment you meant it to be :) Gene Spafford, maybe?
- ArtWomb 4y agoBrings back memories ;) https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/ https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/ Thanks, dang! Closest analogy is probably The Wells' Tom Mandel: What Tom Mandel knew, and what many companies and individuals still refuse to learn, is that on- line is not about selling something to someone or bringing information to the starving masses. What it is about is people wanting to connect, in a real and genuine way, to other people free of the filters of older media; to establish, no matter how ephemerally, communities of like minded souls who are not separated by the facts of geography; to create a place where it really is the content of one's character that is the first and foremost thing people see https://americandigest.org/mt-archives/005663.php https://americandigest.org/mt-archives/005663.php Also, Tom Mandel was the first man to stream his dying live on the internet, so there is that to live up to!
- soVeryTired 4y agoDid Taco get himself cancelled or something? Way back when, slashdot was every bit as central to tech culture as HN is today.
- h2odragon 4y agoCmdrTaco was/is a good person [1], but as a moderator he had biases and faults like many others. Before Slashdot, there was Usenet, and Mr Spafford was one of several there who helped explore what "online community" might mean. There's a few BBS sysops I could list too but they're not as widely famous and in some cases were always pseudonyms anyway. [1] insofar as a vi user can be