If your early internet experience was shaped by Usenet like mine was, you’ll find @SteveBellovin’s “Netnews: The Origin Story” recap interesting. Includes nuggets like how his first 150 lines Bourne shell implementation worked. :-)
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@jschauma @SteveBellovin
Been there, in the late '90s, so already on the downslope.
It's the reason why I can't take seriously most of the takes about modern social media being uniquely bad for people: back then there was no "algorithm" and people behaved just the same.
