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Maybe I’m slow (alright, I know I am) but it seems to me that HN has jumped the shark with it’s apparent shift to “all AI, all the time” making me lose interest. Yes, I won’t let t…

I would add that after reading The Machine Stops you should read Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" from 1951. Talk about prescient! It reads like a meld of Idiocracy and the curren…

Agreed! Built my first e-commerce site with Homesite and Coldfusion in 1996.

Nice story. If you haven't read the Rabbit series I heartily recommend it along with all of Updike's works. And it makes me a little sad that I check the comments here and see I'm …

Good on you for posting here and please follow all the advice about seeking professional help. It may take time but it will help. You will get through to the other side. In my case…

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (relatively new) and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

Global Network Navigator: https://www.oreilly.com/gnn/ O'Reilly at the time was my go-to for anything tech. Loved the look of their books. I was a CompuServe moderator at the time …

1984

I used to be a CompuServe forum manager 25 years ago and got started with dialup BBS using Qmodem at 2400bps. Sent mail via FidoNet and loved it. Got my first internet access when …