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Or a certain cohort of Gen X who were old enough to watch The Day After or Threads and comprehend the possibilities.

There was quite a kick when the engines spooled up. I flew mainly SFO/LAX to SYD and the few minutes of full thrust you just kind of sat back in your seat and didn't try to do anyt…

Was going to make a similar comment…most systems programming was in PL/S or PL/X on 370/390 architecture (regardless of the O/S). AIX and OS/2 were mostly in C. AS/400 in RPG. Ther…

GML dates to 1969, SGML from the 1970s. Internally we used something called BookMaster which kind of? looks like a precursor to HTML (you had :p. instead of , :li. instead of ). Th…

Ah, yes, the Zapata Petroleum -> zap.com phase of the bubble.

Just seconding this…people have a starry eyed view of the dotcom boom but there was a lot of waste and outright fraud. A lot of theoretical improvements to business processes were …

Is it just the classic (1996-1997 era?) SYN-ACK attack?

Most of my domains are at PairDomains (no nonsense UI, but also limited TLDs). Have become a recent convert to Porkbun after Godaddy blew a renewal (on a TLD Pair doesn’t support).…

No. I don’t know that “the public” worried about anything with respect to the Internet. There was a lot of hand wringing by various thought leaders about porn, adult content, porn,…

No, IIRC the Port Authority owned the land but leased development out to a developer, Larry Silverstein. Coincidentally Silverstein leased the rest of the WTC complex from the PANY…

One million buildings…that's residential, commercial office or retail, and other (factories, storage, etc).

There was still an antitrust case in process against IBM in 1981 when the PC was launched, it would only be dropped by the US in 1982. I started in 1990 and the fear of another ant…

Problem one is they do not honor the conventions of the web and abuse the sites. Problem two is they are taking content for free, distilling it into a product, and limiting access …

Do the AI training bots provide free access to the distillation of the content they drain from my site repeatedly? Don't they want a free and open web? I don’t feel a particular ne…

I think the reasoning would be much simpler: more and more services and personnel working in those services are becoming mandatory reporters through legislation and regulation.

Personally, it became too much of a hassle to maintain. Comment spammers would whale on your comment systems, so you either shut them off or offloaded to some third party. If you r…

It’s 1997. The executives in the boardroom have heard about this AI thing and have tasked the managerial class to make sure they have an AI plan to execute for FY2025 and FY2026. S…

The only way I succeeded was to argue with real numbers and costs. The business side liked to frequently claim that we did $XXX in business every minute using the web site, so I st…

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I'm not in the city at the moment to check but they seem to take it down or shift it when there's going to be construction in an area. With the Gansevoort Pier rebuild and Little I…

I don't think that's a current map, the eruv web site shows much more of the island covered (including much of Hell's Kitchen): http://eruv.nyc/#map

See http://eruv.nyc/#map for a more current map (circa 2023).

Correct link is: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-06/miami-s-d...

Netscape tried dynamic email with Communicator in the 90s…somehow I still have the sample "Airius Airway's 401k Contributions Worksheet" with JavaScript embedded (Gmail obviously i…

My better half uses various AI services (paid, mostly) to either stub out documents or presentations or to distill and summarize gobs of information. They're fully aware of the sho…