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Jan 15, 2022 at 23:13
The Rise of the Stupid Network: a remarkable 1997 essay on what ISPs as dumb bit pipes enables, moving innovation to client devices on the internet, and avoiding the scarcity mindset from when hardware was expensive: https://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html

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May 27, 2021 at 07:08
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Super impressed that I received an elisp PR that discusses backwards compatibility to 1997!
Convert all user-definable defvar into defcustom in bison-mode defgroup. by pierre-rouleau · Pull Request #13 · Wilfred/bison-mode
Convert all user-definable defvar into defcustom in bison-mode defgroup. by pierre-rouleau · Pull Request #13 · Wilfred/bison-mode
Add the defgroup bison-mode, under the defgroup for C. All defcustom are in this new defgroup. This has no impact on users of Emacs 20 and later when defgroup and defcustom were introduced (in 1997...
Jan 24, 2021 at 01:58
This announcement of VisualAge 1.0 for Java (released 1997) is cute. How could Java be revolutionary without a "new killer op-code or do-loop"? I particularly like how the free edition limits you to creating 100 classes.
VisualAge for Java 1.0 - Let the Future Begin