Now we go to a text transformer that poops spaghetti code by the bucket.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2026
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What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn't great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
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Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
Then we learned that if you wanted to get the right answer from people ... all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong ... and so many people would jump on you so fast to tell you how stupid you were and give you the right answer.
.... and you also had to tie an onion on your belt which was the style of the time.