The Sierra Network

So many fond memories of TSN.

In 7th grade, trapped in the house during snowy winter nights, it became a real place to hang out. And unlike say, CompuServe, there were a lot of kids my age there.

Way ahead of its time.

"In a 1990 address, Steve Jobs, a visionary who gets lots of credit for the many things he got right but little blame for the equal number of things he got wrong, said that the 1990s would be “the decade of interpersonal computing.” When he said it, he was talking of small-scale connectivity via LANs, not the wide-scale connectivity that was already being enabled by services like CompuServe and Prodigy, much less the epoch-making invention that would be the World Wide Web. Ken Williams responded, rightly, that Jobs was “thinking too small. I agree that ‘interpersonal computing’ — the idea that the individual computer owner will soon find himself acting as part of a bigger connected computer community — is the next step in the evolution of personal computing. But I disagree with Jobs’s vision of the company office as the birthplace of this technology.”"

I always thought so while watching the show. I'm old enough that I had an account on TSN in the 90s (just the trial since I was a kid).

Side random story: Mackenzie Davis (Cameron Howe) from Halt and Catch Fire walked into my company, Loveseat.com, in LA a couple months ago. I spent about an hour playing furniture Tetris with her trying to figure out how to fit a day bed in her van. She's exactly like her character. I was star struck.

agree with you.. isn't this interpersonal computing part of the vision for The Decentralized Web and current decentralization efforts (or vice versa)?