I can take a guess.

Post #437,811 by static 12/17/20 11:32:32 PM 12/17/20 11:32:32 PM Reply	I can take a guess. Mid to late 90s. I remember being on the forum at a job that I left in 1999 or 2000. Wade.
Post #437,820 by crazy 12/18/20 1:46:18 PM 12/18/20 1:46:18 PM Reply	I'm thinking mid-nineties or so when I showed up https://www.quora.com/Why-did-IBMs-OS-2-project-lose-to-Microsoft-given-that-IBM-had-much-more-resources-than-Microsoft-at-that-time Wonderful answer to this question was posted in this forum that I found while researching the timeline Based on that I've been "here" 25 to 27 years.
Post #437,822 by drook 12/18/20 2:34:23 PM 12/18/20 2:34:23 PM Reply	I don't know I've read the Sandy what's-her-name OS/2 story so many times I can't say for sure if I was there to see it when it was happening. -- Drew
Post #437,824 by crazy 12/18/20 3:21:15 PM 12/18/20 3:21:15 PM Reply	Oh I was there long before that. I was subscribed to infoworld and read it weekly long before then. I was on their forums very early. Before that it was usenet groups and bulletin boards.
Post #437,828 by Ashton 12/18/20 5:33:01 PM 12/18/20 5:33:01 PM Reply	~Ditto here.. re IW subscription (i made-up my 'IT-resumẻ'- chops, etc.) Was in it because it seemed to me--pre-Sandy or maybe not--that IW did indeed hunt about for the latest, potentially greatest y.a.n.-Boolean-construct from which to spawn, perhaps-next: a truly State-of-Art Useable small 'computer-thing', maybe á lá HAL-9001 [??] Still Waiting on that: Voice! via decoded Vulcan mind-meld 'twixt the Machine et moi. Is that too much to ask? Having punched cards for the CDC-6600 (?) re assembly-language for the accelerator's First-ever magnetic-field controller, our new $20K jewel, PDP-8: I had passed Test-1 when the local Programmer-in-Chief handed moi that oily yellow bcd-encoded paper tape, with: ~"OK, create a [Octal, yet!] tape to print out this data on the ASR-tty". My first proof that: computers are indeed utterly-mindless, such that every character demands an agonizingly verbose set --just. to. print. a fucking--Character (!) But I digress, just like such silly-Code forever does.
Post #437,833 by boxley 12/18/20 7:33:48 PM 12/18/20 7:33:48 PM Reply	must have subscription back in the day forums were pricey for me to get to, had to dial long distance from alaska to an 800 number with a modem to get on compuserv "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #437,836 by crazy 12/18/20 8:59:42 PM 12/18/20 8:59:42 PM Reply	Hah. I was on the other side My company had a pay to query database on CompuServe. I uploaded that database monthly to CompuServe. because I was part of the group that had access that meant I had free access to every other database on CompuServe. Note: I had to ask an administrator to grant me access but no one ever said no. The medical and lawyer databases were of special interest. when I wanted something from my doctor I would print out a few hundred pages of reports from CompuServe's database specific to that which he would then read over the weekend and of course agree with me.
Post #437,830 by Ashton 12/18/20 6:20:12 PM 12/18/20 6:20:12 PM Reply	Thanks!..it's encyclopedic, authentic and best History I've encountered; just Think: Had 'we' and everybody .. just partial knowledge of these Billy-machinations (even given early flubs in OS/2 builds), Windoze would not have been able to retard/kill, throughout: all these decades of shit-dominance. World-wide! So near / yet so far.. the advancement which came so close to Happening (Kinda like some.. any! of The Menace's $$-victims who went to pulverize Him ..and failed to perform?) {{sob}}
Post #437,829 by Ashton 12/18/20 5:58:37 PM 12/18/20 5:58:37 PM Reply	Yeah, believe mid-90s when my tether was via local Library connection on dial-up, quite before Pictures happened! with ..w.t.f. was that, 'Mosaic? maybe, where the B&W-text-Only ..vanished forever on one's Color monitor, mine snagged for a song at a local swap-meet: a re-branded 'Power Computing' hi-res $600 weighty monolith (when that was Real-money) gotten for something under $200--in cash at such places. (I do so recall firing up the first iMac (early-09 model 20")--on dial-up! w a t c h i n g the bytes creep in, via a cute tiny Apple-modem, lent via neighbor. Thence after a few days, ugly-Corp. Comcast (but Fast!). tl;dr then: *Twenty-five Years !!!* ... n Centuries in blogosphere parsecs.

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