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1. bengoo+Ai[view] [source] 2024-06-28 22:52:33
>>kjhugh+(OP)
I'm about a half hour into this, and listening to Marc talk about newsgroups brings strong pangs of nostalgia. These days I'm a bit of a greybeard (salt-n-pepper beard?) of web browsing, but I remember getting started in the late days of Netscape, as a teenage open source hacker discovering all the Netscape engineers sitting on the npm.* newsgroups.. how wild it was to be able to turn up there with a question about the browser you used every day and have someone working on it answer! Netscape didn't survive, but what a legacy.
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2. tingle+4k[view] [source] 2024-06-28 23:05:47
>>bengoo+Ai
What were the npm.* newsgroups? I don't remember that hierarchy. Where Netscape and Node contemporaneous?
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3. nsguy+nk[view] [source] 2024-06-28 23:07:51
>>tingle+4k
node.js and Netscape are about 20 years apart ;) I also don't remember an npm. newsgroup hierarchy. As a teenager during that time I recall some binary newsgroups though :)
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4. dboreh+6K[view] [source] 2024-06-29 04:34:00
>>nsguy+nk
There were netscape.xxx internal news groups.
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