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Daniel Nest's avatar

"BJJ doesn't break legs. People using BJJ break legs." - National BJJ Association.

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Before my time (can you believe it) there were online (dialup) Bulletin Boards or BBS. The WELL (Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link) was the bohemian rhapsody of that time. Then you got usenet forums which required a special reader (NNTP/pre web blowup) and I did use some of those. And then finally the web brought forums that are still around today and essentially what Reddit and the like sit on (looking at you substack).

Peter Thiel hit the news recently with his famous quote ‘We wanted flying cars; instead we got 140 characters’ and it is amazing how much tech has been devoted to essentially people bitching (interspersed with some chatting) at each other. I think it also speaks to how hard hardware is versus software.

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