The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West

Re:The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West by njharman on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:00PM (#25458211)

HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.

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Re:The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West by xwdv on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:54PM (#25459604)

But why? What is the connection?

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Re:The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West by dghlsakjg on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:26PM (#25460669)

The post is about a person named Mae West. The wikipedia article linked is about a infrastructure exchange point with the same name

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Re:The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West by xwdv on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:43PM (#25462434)

I’m talking about the original article. The person. Why?

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Re:The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West by labster on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:41PM (#25463945)

I learned something from reading this article. Plus Mae West was a hacker of a sort: she interpreted censorship as damage and routed around it. Obviously not as much of a hacker as Hedy Lamarr, but still she led an interesting life.

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