I am starting to think these origin stories are comms to signal who is a cabal insider. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Hewlett-Packard all started in garages? Michael Dell started out selling computers out of his trunk?
The garage stories also gain support from people. It fooled us into believing these were just kids that developed something major, we spread the word and now it's a monstrosity.
When it first started, the internet was fun. Programming was done on notepad. People experimented and played. Info was shared freely.
Now it's boring. Plug in bloated WordPress to get a cookie cutter site to push crap no one wants or to collect your info for car warranty scams.
And the modern venture capital industry was born (ie. put in blood sweat and tears in your garage, with mom and dad’s savings, and then sell us your ingenuity, R&D, and intellectual property for pennies on the dollar, if you’re lucky).
I miss the old Internet. Some parts I went to had some wildly creative people who were free to post whatever they wanted - a funny comment from someone could result in a meme or a song or a little animation created by someone else. Just fun little things that made you laugh or entertained you in some way.
Once the wokescolds took over (somewhere around 2012), it started to get boring as you've said. Content creators stopped putting out new things because you had no idea if it would be "acceptable" or not. And content that was considered "not acceptable" could get you cancelled in real life, so why stick your neck out?
I knew early on that there would be censorship of the political talk because Control Freaks couldn't handle people exchanging ideas freely. I just never thought that they'd come for the creative part as well.
I've actually taken a liking to JetBrains Rider for .net... the .net platform is decent, and with some of the new .net Core stuff, I like it for web/REST backends, but could not stand needing to use Visual Studio.
It's generally been a much more enjoyable experience, much less buggy, much faster. I use the Vim plug-in. Rider also has a Windows Forms designer for when that comes up.
Didn't know it existed until a colleague mentioned it, and was impressed.
There was a nice little app called HotDog that we also used for web programming. Small, simple, functional and free.
I liked notepad though. Forced you to actually learn and understand the code. Like you say, pay attention to what you type.
“Bill Gates started his entire company out of just his garage! Sure, his dad being a patent lawyer helped him with all those acquisitions. How did he get the IBM contract? Where did he get the $75,000 to buy DOS in 1981 at age 26? He’s just a totally normal guy who can afford to go to Harvard, whose mom just happens to run a federal reserve branch and whose dad just happens to work with the Rothschilds and run Planned Parenthood. Yeah, hey, and in 1975 at 20 years old, with only the power of being a whiz bang genius, he wrote a BASIC interpreter [a real-time code compiler] in two months for an obscure computer called an Altair, which was named after a star and priced numerologically, in a matter of days on a whim with no training in writing interpreters, for a military contracting company, with the decision to do all this being made by looking at a Popular Electronics cover.”
The election referendum that “saved the Seahawks” by ending at 51/49 in favor of building a stadium while Paul Allen played guitar is also definitely very normal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9XL6U_cpw
Allen liked to contribute to the “Save the Elephants” fund and donated 100 million to stop Ebola in Africa.
Paul Allen “was the son of a librarian and a elementary teacher who happened to be connected enough to magically afford to go to the 23rd best private school in the country where he met Bill Gates and the two made beautiful nerd music while posing for photo ops at their very rare teletype terminal that all you very normal humans had.” Quincy Jones said Allen ‘sang’ and ‘played guitar’ just like Jimi Hendrix, because that happens.
When Mark “Feldman/Chabenisky" Cuban was getting started, he was so broke he had to survive off scavenged ketchup packets. Here is a totally normal article about his lawyer definitely-not-nepotism-employed Vice President brother who hung out doing cocaine in clubs, has red leather shoes, and is fighting to legalize medical marijuana in Texas, and just has the biggest heart. Their dad, like Hillary Clinton’s, was just a humble upholsterer.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/10/05/mark-cuban-s-brother-brian-is-sober-voice-in-favor-of-medical-marijuana/
I am starting to think these origin stories are comms to signal who is a cabal insider. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Disney, Hewlett-Packard all started in garages? Michael Dell started out selling computers out of his trunk?
Here’s an Inc. article (archived) highlighting garage startups: https://archive.ph/oqeKJ
Edit: Not to mention they always come from affluent and connected families.
The garage stories also gain support from people. It fooled us into believing these were just kids that developed something major, we spread the word and now it's a monstrosity. When it first started, the internet was fun. Programming was done on notepad. People experimented and played. Info was shared freely. Now it's boring. Plug in bloated WordPress to get a cookie cutter site to push crap no one wants or to collect your info for car warranty scams.
And the modern venture capital industry was born (ie. put in blood sweat and tears in your garage, with mom and dad’s savings, and then sell us your ingenuity, R&D, and intellectual property for pennies on the dollar, if you’re lucky).
Many good inventions and programs have been bought out and put to pasture in order to prevent any real competition in the markets.
I miss the old Internet. Some parts I went to had some wildly creative people who were free to post whatever they wanted - a funny comment from someone could result in a meme or a song or a little animation created by someone else. Just fun little things that made you laugh or entertained you in some way.
Once the wokescolds took over (somewhere around 2012), it started to get boring as you've said. Content creators stopped putting out new things because you had no idea if it would be "acceptable" or not. And content that was considered "not acceptable" could get you cancelled in real life, so why stick your neck out?
I knew early on that there would be censorship of the political talk because Control Freaks couldn't handle people exchanging ideas freely. I just never thought that they'd come for the creative part as well.
I miss 'Ask Jeeves'. Ah, for the days of innocence and romance when we had blight spirits and no knowledge of the darkness...
Webcrawler, anyone? Back before Google...
There were also several search engines to use, and you didn't have to pay for ads to have people find your website.
AskJeeves was a fun one!
You used to be able to scrape the internet overnight with a basic DSL connection and setup your own search engine with ease and no legal red tape.
I've actually taken a liking to JetBrains Rider for .net... the .net platform is decent, and with some of the new .net Core stuff, I like it for web/REST backends, but could not stand needing to use Visual Studio.
It's generally been a much more enjoyable experience, much less buggy, much faster. I use the Vim plug-in. Rider also has a Windows Forms designer for when that comes up.
Didn't know it existed until a colleague mentioned it, and was impressed.
I don't know what you just said, but it makes me not want to learn to code.
Don't worry, fren. AI will eventually do all of the coding for us. 🙄
There was a nice little app called HotDog that we also used for web programming. Small, simple, functional and free. I liked notepad though. Forced you to actually learn and understand the code. Like you say, pay attention to what you type.
Aha. So that's the desired outcome of programming such as Halt & Catch Fire.
Lookie, it's just another rag tag band of normalized nerds! Just like you & me! /s
“Bill Gates started his entire company out of just his garage! Sure, his dad being a patent lawyer helped him with all those acquisitions. How did he get the IBM contract? Where did he get the $75,000 to buy DOS in 1981 at age 26? He’s just a totally normal guy who can afford to go to Harvard, whose mom just happens to run a federal reserve branch and whose dad just happens to work with the Rothschilds and run Planned Parenthood. Yeah, hey, and in 1975 at 20 years old, with only the power of being a whiz bang genius, he wrote a BASIC interpreter [a real-time code compiler] in two months for an obscure computer called an Altair, which was named after a star and priced numerologically, in a matter of days on a whim with no training in writing interpreters, for a military contracting company, with the decision to do all this being made by looking at a Popular Electronics cover.”
The election referendum that “saved the Seahawks” by ending at 51/49 in favor of building a stadium while Paul Allen played guitar is also definitely very normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9XL6U_cpw Allen liked to contribute to the “Save the Elephants” fund and donated 100 million to stop Ebola in Africa. Paul Allen “was the son of a librarian and a elementary teacher who happened to be connected enough to magically afford to go to the 23rd best private school in the country where he met Bill Gates and the two made beautiful nerd music while posing for photo ops at their very rare teletype terminal that all you very normal humans had.” Quincy Jones said Allen ‘sang’ and ‘played guitar’ just like Jimi Hendrix, because that happens.
When Mark “Feldman/Chabenisky" Cuban was getting started, he was so broke he had to survive off scavenged ketchup packets. Here is a totally normal article about his lawyer definitely-not-nepotism-employed Vice President brother who hung out doing cocaine in clubs, has red leather shoes, and is fighting to legalize medical marijuana in Texas, and just has the biggest heart. Their dad, like Hillary Clinton’s, was just a humble upholsterer. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2010/10/05/mark-cuban-s-brother-brian-is-sober-voice-in-favor-of-medical-marijuana/
It’s comments like these that make me keep digging. Thanks!
You forgot Biden's startup, selling national secrets out of his garage.
Kek!!!
Brilliant!!!