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Re: It Was 20 Years Ago Today

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In article <303bd6da-528c-465e-b58b-585a69e2d86e@googlegroups.com>, 
chris.weston@gmail.com (Chris Weston) wrote:

> *From:* Chris Weston <chris.weston@gmail.com>
> *Date:* Fri, 3 Jan 2020 01:01:39 -0800 (PST)
> 
> On Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:15:19 UTC, Bradley K. Sherman  wrote:
> > 1 january 2000:
> > A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
> > egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
> > out of the generator market.
> > 
> >     --bks
> 
> And a whole bunch of programmers (before we called ourselves Devs) 
> looked up from their new projects having done the hard work 
> previously, and hoped everyone would learn a lesson about technical 
> debt...
> 
> -- 
> Chris Weston

Yes, and sadly a lot of people now think it wasn't ever really a problem...

wg

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