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Re:Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 by dbspin on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @07:36AM (#42851622)
The early years of the web were absolutely this chaotic maelstrom of new things happening every week. But news of it was hard to come by. In the UK / Ireland we had some great tech coverage in the form of shows like 'The Net' [1] that regularly showed off early internet craziness like the 'We Live in Public' project.

However a better analogy would be the 'web 2.0', when as a college student I had an early internet politics / technology podcast [3]. It seemed like every week there was a huge new development either in technology, or surveillance. From the first location based social networks [4] to the birth of Youtube. People were podcasting for the first time, and internet video was becoming economically feasible at low to no cost. It was really a radical time, with broadcasters freaking out about how they would adapt, and a whole generation of people becoming whats now known as 'content creators'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public

[3] https://archive.org/search?query=technolotics

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku

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Re:Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 by hendersoon on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:02AM (#42851823)
Once upon a time I worked for Pseudo.com, the We Live in Public guy. He was apparently having crazy parties with mountains of coke, NY glitterati attending, all while cosplaying as a sad clown. I wasn't invited to those parties so I had no idea. Anyway now I hear he owns an orchard in Vegas or something. Crazy stuff.
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Re:Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 by dbspin on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @08:55AM (#42852308)
Damn that must be frustrating. Tangentially similar experience - I flew from Ireland to the US in 2007, and at the end of my trip spent 11 days walking around Manhattan with little to do. Do to the lack of online banking at the time I couldn't readily check my bank balance, and thought (wrongly) I'd run out of money. Anyway - I had absolutely no idea that there were 'things afoot' in Brooklyn, nor how easy it would have been to hop a train to Williamsburg, or Bushwick. I didn't come back again till 2013, and caught a mere hint of the tail end of what seems to have been an extremely fun era.
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