Celebros

I used one in the past actually called burner (burnerapp.com). Did not work every time though.

Fond memories of being in high school and wiping the family computer trying to install Slackware. Fall ‘96 so probably 3.1 or something.

Very cool it’s still around.

I agree, the museum is great. I visited there shortly after I read Moby Dick and that was where I learned about the marathon. But I was there in August and not January so missed it as well. Sadly I live in the Midwest. Will have to try to plan when there isn’t a horrible snow storm to make it there in the future.

My wife visited the museum on Nantucket and said that was also a very enjoyable experience.

Love Moby Dick. One thing I've wanted to do for a few years is make the trip to New Bedford Whaling Museum for the annual marathon reading.

It's also streamed every year.

https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/the-moby-dick-marathon...

What I miss the most of my coming of age time during the 90s is the process of logging on and off.

Once I got my Cleveland Freenet Account I loved popping on after school to check my email (which at that point was really just personal messages from a few friends) and stopping by IRC to chat.

The limiting factor of dinner time and needing to free up the phone lines was great to limit daily use.

Snowden’s _Permanent Record_ did a nice job capturing this feeling for those around 40.

Wow haven’t thought about Gopher in forever. I still prefer to interact with the command line instead of the GUI for most things. I’ll have to give that a try.

Saw this article from the same author of this tweet a few days ago on here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26963708)

This part of the article had me scratching my head:

"Hansson’s response to this employee took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated in a discussion about a customer with a funny-sounding name. Hansson posted the message — visible to the entire company — and dismissed the substance of the employee’s complaint"