I wonder if today's #webdev communities are so young they can't remember or weren't born when the NSF held domain names. "What a time it was it was a time of innocence...a time of confidences..." - Simon and Garfunkel Am I just old and grumpy and want these kids off my lawn? ;-)

Apr 10, 2019 · 7:54 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Heh. I remember that. My memory of the iteration of online system is that each new development looked like Utopia, until it didn't .
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Yay Rabbi, for those who were at that crossroads! I am struggling with synagogues here. I want Interfaith values with Orthodox davening and Choir! Not one Rabbi has written back to my emails. Any ideas? I need code to harmonize. UU did "Challah for Gaza" this weekend.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Nope. I feel the kindness of our past, our trust.
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I don't. Not in that milieu, but I made some choices some folks found inappropriate, Like telling truths and caring about a real standard of professionalism. I see us doing what we always do, default to easy/faster.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Oh and maybe we are old and grumpy too.
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I agree with both your tweets with a chuckle on the age-related quip ;-)
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Then there was the time before domain names. For those who are old enough, it was the era of bang addressing and routing maps of computer links. Sending an email involved manually defining the route instead of domain names.
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That activity was before my time with Internet. I came to it via gopher and friends. Gopher and WAIS were the two coolest IMO before the Web.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
Nope. What they don't have is knowledge of the history and people that got us here.