Re: I miss everrybody

On 2024-07-03, joe@mich.com <joe@mich.com> wrote:

>
So sad.

Yes, me too. Here is some nostalgia:

https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-true-story-as-best-i-can-remember

Remembering the first days of the Internet when we were a million of the
smartest engineers and scientists connected by Usenet. Posting to newsgroups
where you might get an answer from the most accomplished person in the
world on a particular subject.

I was at Andreesen's first public demo of Mosaic, and came back to my
company telling everyone we had to do this. I'd been on Usenet for 4 years,
getting only a few newsgroups via a feed from UIUC. I didn't hit RSFC until
just before eternal September, because I didn't pull anything from rec.*,
only news.*, sci.*, and comp.*.

--
Lucky people are skilled at creating & noticing chance opportunities, make
lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling
prophesies via positive expectations,  & adopt a resilient attitude that
transforms bad luck into good.
-- Richard Wiseman