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I used to bump into him quite a lot in the 80s when we both worked at VNU. Really nice guy, but - as a young journo - also quite scary :)
Oh ho, well well well.
History will remember you fondly!
If I’m reading it right, the website will go offline after March. That seems unnecessary if VNU are still the ultimate owner.
Once upon a time, long long ago, it seemed the post-cover-mag-and-bbs programming world consisted of the reg, the joelonsoftware forum and then the inquirer. That was before proggit and then here, HN. The inquirer started off as humour and investigation, but for many fans the inq faded when Mike Magee (a founder of the reg, who split to form the inq) moved on. I stopped following along when it became more and more co…
that's very selective. here's a few more: digg, fark, slashdot
Why shut it down and not sell it?