2026-05-10 16:42 UTC
@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @masek@infosec.exchange Flashback to 1990 or so and I’m learning to program in Fortran 77 on a mainframe using a VT100 dumb terminal (well, it was a DEC Rainbow 100, but it had built in terminal mode)
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to 2026-05-10 16:46
@scrummy@jawns.club @masek@infosec.exchange this reminds of me of a semi relevant anecdote maybe 2015, twitter, this america scientists tweets OMG !! Holy Cow !! I just found a piece of equipment in the lab that was used by a famous scientist in 1930 !! and of course people in the US piled on and then the Brits and Dutch politely piled on, 1930 you say ? Well, here in the UK . . and then This guy says: I work at the university where Galileo worked and we all slunk off with our internet tails between our legs