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Maybe interesting to post here are the comments of Steve Yegge (GeoWorks developer) on large scale assembly projects: https://youtu.be/tz-Bb-D6teE?t=2161 His argument was that whil…

This is quite similar to the "Lenny" Asterisk script that seems quite popular on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ It seems that no real intelligence is required to keep t…

Also the Polaroid Cube, MeCam, Narrative, etc. There seems to be no shortage of small consumer-oriented camera gadgets.

It looks like most European countries had nationwide X.25 networks of some kind at the time. Why did federating these networks never really take off? There were some initiatives it…

I can't comment on the situation in eastern-europe, but what essentially killed any chance of standardization here in west-europe was the dominance of MSN messenger that came bundl…

> (formerly Sylpheed Claws) Hey! Some of us are still using Sylpheed! :)

Looking at how simple the protocol actually is, I find it hard to believe this protocol actually died because of copyright claims. The structured menu system is certainly something…

The “lack of loosely coupled components” argument is kind of sad considering that some unnamed network equipment vendor initially started off with QNX based firmware, which inheren…

But IPv4 headers could have a variable length too, it's just that we don't encounter that much in the wild. And what about the AH header, GRE and IPIP tunnel headers, 6rd/6in4 tunn…

But why filter ICMP at all? I can understand that ICMP allows for covert tunnelling, but by that logic any IP protocol number should be blocked.

Does this mean that half of the bitmap OLE objects will break in a few months to come?

Did you move to live near your workplace, or the other way around?

Could you tell use something more about its flaws compared to other operating systems of the era?

Indeed, imposing DRM is the whole idea :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale But there are some benefits which you didn't mention, such as including text & images…

Until a few years ago, a lot of freenets (like the 'AzTec' one) were still online and publicly accessible. It was always fun to roam those in search of some forgotten gems.

Doesn't the project require a large user base in order to function?