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bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
what was the 9/11 of computers?

my guess: eternal september

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SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

April 12, 2004

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

a second tumor has hit steves pancreas

ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?

Asleep Style
Oct 20, 2010

how quickly we forget the free software 9/11

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

SO DEMANDING posted:

April 12, 2004

gently caress!!!!

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
April 26 1999

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
whenever windows vista came out

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
the 9/11 of computers was....just 9/11

i worked a shift at the dialup isp that day. it was loving crazy, everything fell over and all the perl driven paleolithic CMS's the news sites used died and they went to static pages. this illuminated the need for CDNs, one of which i work at today.

thanks 9/11!

duomo
Oct 9, 2007




Soiled Meat

illusi0n90
Feb 26, 2007

You got blood on my suit.
When those jerks turned Napster off

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

Jonny 290 posted:

the 9/11 of computers was....just 9/11

i worked a shift at the dialup isp that day. it was loving crazy, everything fell over and all the perl driven paleolithic CMS's the news sites used died and they went to static pages. this illuminated the need for CDNs, one of which i work at today.

thanks 9/11!

you’re basically a vet

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
o7

ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?

class war veteran

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

SO DEMANDING posted:

April 12, 2004

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Every day is 9/11 when you're using open source software OP.

Raere
Dec 13, 2007

the removal of RMS from the FSF

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

illusi0n90 posted:

When those jerks turned Napster off

yeah gently caress metallica slayer 4 ever

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Every day is 9/11 when you're using open source software OP.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
9/11 never happened

President Beep
Apr 30, 2009





i have to have a car because otherwise i cant drive around the country solving mysteries while being doggedly pursued by federal marshals for a crime i did not commit (9/11)
watch timb start a loving war

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

Asleep Style posted:

how quickly we forget the free software 9/11

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

bump_fn posted:

you’re basically a vet

vets are just retired cops, so it fits

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

the release of windows me

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
It's sad we never get this sort of thing anymore.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008

echinopsis posted:

9/11 never happened

There is no evidence at all that there was a "World Trade Center".

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
the amount of media retrofitted with images of the wtc is substantial

9/11 is the sinbad the genie of terrorist attacks

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
on the news here in nz the usa propaganda machine was firing on all cylinders for sure and you had fireman saying “there was this saying called never forget but you know some people forgot” and I was like “forgot what?”

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

every western news channel fails to fire on all cylinders to remember the day or even the month or year over 200,000 people died after the indian ocean tsunami, or when 100k died after the quake in haiti, both of which were after 9/11 :iiam:

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
never mind when the US was performing a 9/11 every day due to covid

9/11 memorials persist because those lives lost weren't in vain, but instead stand as the foundation of the war of terror, and every piece of law eroding privacy ever since.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

echinopsis posted:


9/11 memorials persist because those lives lost weren't in vain, but instead stand as the foundation of the war of terror, and every piece of law eroding privacy ever since.

Buck Turgidson
Feb 6, 2011

𓀬𓀠𓀟𓀡𓀢𓀣𓀤𓀥𓀞𓀬

echinopsis posted:

never mind when the US was performing a 9/11 every day due to covid

9/11 memorials persist because those lives lost weren't in vain, but instead stand as the foundation of the war of terror, and every piece of law eroding privacy ever since.

the terror is right in front of your eyes maaaaaaaaan

(except unironically)

Nomnom Cookie
Aug 30, 2009



the 9/11 of computers was the first time a manager realized they could use software to replace jobs

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

ops posts

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
yeah i'm goin with "when AOL decided to give their users access to the internet"

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

eternal september wasn't a real thing. it was two dozen grognards complaining about other people being allowed into their clubhouse

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Sweevo posted:

eternal september wasn't a real thing. it was two dozen grognards complaining about other people being allowed into their clubhouse

it was a pretty gradual process over a couple years but it was definitely a thing

ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?

rotor posted:

it was a pretty gradual process over a couple years but it was definitely a thing

usenet only worked when you could complain to someone's dad (their job, their school) and get them kicked off/talked to.

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Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
idk about the 9/11 but facebook is basically the climate change of computers

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