John C. Dvorak has died
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#2Used to watch him regularly on ZDTV. RIP
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#3I first become aware of John C. Dvorak in Byte magazine, ( back in the 80s?)
to me he was a respected insigtful interesting content wrighter.
The post link above says he was 74, THe wikipedia page says 80. I gues one will be corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
RIP
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#4RIP
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#5What a bummer.
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#6Damn.. images of glossy PC Magazines that I used to read are filling my head.. growing up in the 80s & 90s with computer building and reselling as the family business, and just being excited about new technology, and he was a part of that.
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#7In my youth, his InfoWorld columns were appointment reading. A one-of-a-kind in the industry.
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#8Last tweet by him just 2 days ago.
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#9For those like me wondering if he's also the creator of the Dvorak keyboard, no but close!
> He is a nephew of sociologist August Dvorak, creator of the Dvorak keyboard.
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#10Dvorak shaped the emerging PC industry. Larger than life figure. Sad he's not here for the AI takeover.