Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jan 16 2024 14:08:53

On 15 Jan 2024 at 09:22a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> Blue White wrote to Arelor <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  BW> That business model is at least part of what lead to the dot.com cras
 pF>  BW> in the late 1990s.
 pF> 
 pF>  Those were heady times. I loved reading fuckedcompany.com and seeing
 pF>  companies with horrendously non-viable business ideas, like flake.com,
 pF>  a social network for people who like breakfast cereal.
 pF> 
 pF>  A company had their comeout party in San Francisco and closed
 pF>  operations the next day.

I remember something like that.  There was a company that
built an actual physical wireless device that interacted with
little sensors all over New York City.  They launched and
then went under the next day.  All these people who'd bought
these dumb little devices were just out the hundred bucks or
whatever they'd spent for the things.

We cracked one open at the company I worked at at the time
and looked inside.  I remember it had a Dragonball Z processor
(Motorola 68000 core, basically) but that's about it.

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