Any other Cal Poly folks around? Always seems like we're underrepresented compared to the Stanfords of the world. I wasn't even a CS grad (I tried to but CP wo

Any other Cal Poly folks around? Always seems like we're underrepresented compared to the Stanfords of the world. I wasn't even a CS grad (I tried to but CP wouldn't let me switch from physics, one of their less endearing policies) but being there in 2001, 2002 was a really cool time. I remember when the email went down and my roommate commented "just SSH* in and use Pine" and for some reason something clicked right then - "oh yeah, you can do a whole lot more without the browser than with one". I feel like that mindset was there when I was doing a coding exercise for a job a few years back and figured it made sense to just open a socket with netcat instead of building a whole REST API - it was fun (if non-robust!) I vaguely recall systems meant to help automatically register you for classes as soon as they became available, and even used their touch-tone based class reg system at one point. Anyway, ramblings. I ended up with a physics degree and going in to tech anyway; I wish they had just let me switch. * Hell, it might even have just been telnet. This was back when you could browse all your dormmate's media libraries and we shared freely, even unsecured wifi was common for a few years.