Re:Ask YC: What's on your "Holy Shit" list?
by OneSeventeen on Monday August 18, 2008 @02:46PM
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Yeah. Functional programming. I "understood" it for a good while before, rather suddenly, something clicked and I realized what the big deal was all about.
You didn't have to want to play the game to be startled by Doom. I may be biased, because I was also startled by Wolfenstein (I was in high school when it came out, though).
Fanfic though? Really? Fanfic?
I think you underestimate the power of James T. Kirk in a fursuit.
... perhaps we all do?
or in drag :O
Here I thought this was genuinely humorous
> The WWW: "It's so disorganized. I prefer gopher."
"Me too" - I remember that every time I think about trying to predict the future.
* The WWW: "It's so disorganized. I prefer gopher."
* Google: "Well, it gives good results, but Yahoo is 'good enough' for me
* RSS: "Who reads that many blogs?" (I still believe this, BTW; RSS is a technocrats' technology)
* Doom: "Why would I want to play a game where the sole purpose is to blow shit up?"
Things that really were on my "holy shit" list:
* Modems. "I can login to computers halfway across the world."
* VMWare/VirtualPC/SoftPC. "You mean it's like a computer, running inside a computer?"
* Napster. "Wow, free music."
* Gnutella. "Woah, no server, anywhere."
* Processing. "Those are awfully pretty pictures you just whipped up in the last 6 hours."
* GMail. "A gig of storage space. And it's searchable. And it has keyboard shortcuts. And it's got this conversation view. Where's my invite code?"
* Fanfiction. "Wow, hundreds of thousands of people trying their hand at writing stories."
* OLPC. "This'll open up a market of literally half the planet."
* Functional programming. "I'll never make a state error again."