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Let us take a moment to reflect on the greatest sysadmin who ever was, Christopher Poole https://files.catbox.moe/9uyduv.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/9uyduv.jpg

rollcat 3y ago
Back when the Internet was quite literally held together with duct tape
- TMWNN 3y ago
  I can't find it right now, but there is a well-known photograph of the servers hosting `ibm.com` in, I think, 1997. It's basically a bunch of tower PCs stacked haphazardly sideways on each other.
- em-bee 3y ago
  that was 10 years earlier i was there...
- theideaofcoffee 3y ago
  ... when ... was Not much has changed, the whole contraption still is, to a frightening extent.
- echelon 3y ago
  > Back when the Internet was quite literally held together with duct tape No, you'd have to go back further than that. By the time 4chan came about, the web was starting to crystalize into platforms, and standard tools and databases had been developed. Design and UX was starting to be important. At the time of launch, I distinctly remember that my classmates thought 4chan was weird for taking after "primitive" Japanese image boards. (Craigslist, too, was considered dated.) The early "duct tape" days were the era of EzBoard (1996; before phpBB, vBulletin, and Invision), Flash (1993), Geocities (1994), Angelfire (1996), Lycos (1994), Dogpile (1996), ICQ (1996), early AOL Instant Messenger (1997; before Trillian, Gaim, Libpurple), lots of little IRC clients... lots of CGI, Perl, and C all slapped together. That's when flat file databases were a norm, not an exception. 4chan came around the same time as Digg and Reddit, and in response to some of the platformization that was already starting to happen (Xanga, LiveJournal, and Blogger in ~1999). The machinery and practice of modern web engineering was already falling into place.
skilled 3y ago
checked and keked
416abc 3y ago
I just wish he was able to keep http://canv.as/ http://canv.as/ going. It was such a good product.
2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago
bring back snacks
ionwake 3y ago
Amazing never heard of this post, I guess he did this after his holiday to Mexico. Those labels are quite professional.
- smegsicle 3y ago
  true- '4chan runs on a cluster of mac minis' is a claim just silly enough to be acceptable without evidence
  - ionwake 3y ago
    That’s a good point hadn’t thought of it like that but it’s incredible how often I do this to filter out the BS - it sort of works!
gavinray 3y ago
From the screenshot it seems moot really did call trips on that post too.
- edgineer 3y ago
  Reminds me of mysql connection error coincidentally happening with every get. I'm implying moot stole it.

rollcat 3y ago

Back when the Internet was quite literally held together with duct tape

TMWNN 3y ago
I can't find it right now, but there is a well-known photograph of the servers hosting `ibm.com` in, I think, 1997. It's basically a bunch of tower PCs stacked haphazardly sideways on each other.
em-bee 3y ago
that was 10 years earlier i was there...
theideaofcoffee 3y ago
... when ... was Not much has changed, the whole contraption still is, to a frightening extent.
echelon 3y ago
> Back when the Internet was quite literally held together with duct tape No, you'd have to go back further than that. By the time 4chan came about, the web was starting to crystalize into platforms, and standard tools and databases had been developed. Design and UX was starting to be important. At the time of launch, I distinctly remember that my classmates thought 4chan was weird for taking after "primitive" Japanese image boards. (Craigslist, too, was considered dated.) The early "duct tape" days were the era of EzBoard (1996; before phpBB, vBulletin, and Invision), Flash (1993), Geocities (1994), Angelfire (1996), Lycos (1994), Dogpile (1996), ICQ (1996), early AOL Instant Messenger (1997; before Trillian, Gaim, Libpurple), lots of little IRC clients... lots of CGI, Perl, and C all slapped together. That's when flat file databases were a norm, not an exception. 4chan came around the same time as Digg and Reddit, and in response to some of the platformization that was already starting to happen (Xanga, LiveJournal, and Blogger in ~1999). The machinery and practice of modern web engineering was already falling into place.

skilled 3y ago

checked and keked

416abc 3y ago

I just wish he was able to keep http://canv.as/ http://canv.as/ going. It was such a good product.

2OEH8eoCRo0 3y ago

bring back snacks

ionwake 3y ago

Amazing never heard of this post, I guess he did this after his holiday to Mexico. Those labels are quite professional.

smegsicle 3y ago
true- '4chan runs on a cluster of mac minis' is a claim just silly enough to be acceptable without evidence
- ionwake 3y ago
  That’s a good point hadn’t thought of it like that but it’s incredible how often I do this to filter out the BS - it sort of works!

gavinray 3y ago

From the screenshot it seems moot really did call trips on that post too.

edgineer 3y ago
Reminds me of mysql connection error coincidentally happening with every get. I'm implying moot stole it.