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I remember reading his rants about just how bad the current situation was (which was a terrible website called "developers exchange" or public phpBB internet fo

I remember reading his rants about just how bad the current situation was (which was a terrible website called "developers exchange" or public phpBB internet forums). Never underestimate the passion derived from sheer hatred of the status quo. Also his backup strategies around 2008 were quite interesting.

cyberax 2y ago
> "developers exchange" It was "expertsexchange.com" initially. Then they disambiguated it by renaming to "experts-exchange.com", just to be clear.
- voidmain0001 2y ago
  Awesome! I didn't know that about the domain name.
- smitelli 2y ago
  Ah yes, perpetually flagged by every corporate firewall that did substring keyword matching on DNS queries. Incidentally, the amount of sheer content-masking garbage on their pages was what originally prompted me to install and learn (IIRC) Greasemonkey and a bunch of DOM/CSS stuff.
- pdntspa 2y ago
  Ah, good ol' Expert Sex Change I don't miss that site one bit!