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Ah, embracing innovation the British way. I recall that 6 months before one of those "date the person right next to me" sites picked up in the US, something si
by swombat 13y ago
Ah, embracing innovation the British way.
I recall that 6 months before one of those "date the person right next to me" sites picked up in the US, something similar was launched by some students in a UK university (a pretty high-profile one, though I can't remember which one... LSE? Imperial?). Anyway, long story short, the university IT department shut it down on the grounds that it was not appropriate use of IT facilities.
Six months later, the same launched in the US and grew insanely fast.
- gjm11 13y agoSo this is "the British way" even though it's being done at Yale, because you have one anecdote about something semi-similar happening at a university in the UK? (Only semi-similar, because I think you can make a better case for shutting down a dating site using university IT facilities than for shutting down a course-info site not using university IT facilities.)
- swombat 13y agoI'm just taking a pot shot at Britain for this. Clearly, as this example shows, it's not just a British habit.
- ChristianMarks 13y agoOne acronym: ITIL [1]. The last refuge for the frustrated British Colonialist impulse [2]. [1] Information Technocracy Indoctrination Library. [2] Disclaimer: I am 1/2 British.