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Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)
Author : rdpintqogeogsaa
Score : 69 points
Date : 2021-12-05 10:00 UTC (2 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (aarongiles.com)
| vkoskiv wrote:
| I have JPEGView installed on most of my vintage Mac collection
| (that can display colors, anyway) I'm pretty sure I wasn't even
| born when that software was the latest and greatest!
| rurban wrote:
| But this really is one of the least interesting war stories on
| his page. Be sure to read his Microsoft story.
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| I wonder if his girlfriend ever came back from France.
| na85 wrote:
| I wondered, too, so I went digging and discovered [0] that he
| took an opportunity to work at CERN and thereafter refers to
| "we" and the page ends with the birth of their son.
|
| Happy ending :)
|
| [0] https://aarongiles.com/about/
| datavirtue wrote:
| Love these. I need to write mine up.
| kiawe_fire wrote:
| Please do! I love reading these, and the fewer stories lost to
| time, the better.
| 0des wrote:
| Somewhat in this same vein, it's a shame that clients and
| networks like Hotline/Curaco/BigRedH went under. I think it would
| be very popular today. People are still on KDX and preterhuman
| still has a tracker, but the experience these days is not the
| same. I still wonder sometimes what hinks is up to these days.
| gregsadetsky wrote:
| I miss Hotline [0] and spent many years running a small
| community server & making friends on other servers (some which
| I found by running nmap on port 5500...!) Thanks for the
| reminder, and I'm always happy to give it / its developer Adam
| Hinkley a shout out.
|
| Speaking of which, as someone was asking here in 2013 [1],
| whatever happened to him?
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5690832
| 0des wrote:
| as far as I can remember, he got in some shit for encrypting
| source code [0] and then absconding, then 9/11 happened and
| not sure after that. The most recent things I can find are
| defunct [1], but there is a LinkedIn listing (that I cant
| see). Maybe someone with a LinkedIn account can post their
| findings. [2] The comments in the slashdot thread and the
| court papers [3] sure are interesting.
|
| [0] - https://www.salon.com/1999/02/25/feature_224/
|
| [1] - https://slashdot.org/story/01/04/09/1639212/adam-
| hinkleys-ip...
|
| [2] - nope, wrong guy
|
| [3] - http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-
| bin/viewdoc/au/cases/vic/VSC/...
|
| p.s. Do you think one of us should make another Ask HN post
| and see if anybody has contact with him? The site is kind of
| big these days, and I doubt anybody would vote it up unless
| they recognized the name, but it could be worth a shot. I
| don't even know what I'd ask or say if we did find him
| though. Probably thanks for the memories, and wanting to know
| what he's up to these days.
| jamesfmilne wrote:
| That LinkedIn profile is almost certainly not the same guy.
| 0des wrote:
| I don't have LinkedIn, so I just figured I'd throw it out
| there as it was the #1 search result. He'd be like what,
| 40 years old these days?
| gregsadetsky wrote:
| I doubt that LinkedIn profile is the right Adam Hinkley.
| Apart from living/working in Australia, none of the
| biographical details really match.
|
| And yeah, I think that it's worth doing another Ask, in
| case something comes up. Just posted it:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29478266
| sneak wrote:
| This makes me miss my earliest internet friends from the EFNet
| mac underground (#macfiles, #macwarez, #macdev, et c). The
| internet was a different place then.
|
| (If you were a regular in any of those places, write me - my
| email's in my profile.)
|
| There were also a number of really cool FirstClass BBSes around
| in that era, though cracking and configuring FirstClass was a
| bit of an involved process at the time. (IIRC the Hotline
| server was free?)
| gregsadetsky wrote:
| Ah yes FirstClass!! Spent sooooooo much time using it as my
| local Macintosh User Group was mostly based around it. I even
| remember meeting with one of their reps (at a conference..?
| it's been too long ago) and bringing a list of grievances /
| bugs that we found, mostly on the server side.
|
| And yes, FirstClass had a convoluted-ish serial number /
| activation? process as far as I remember, while Hotline
| server was either free or could easily be found around.
| vladstudio wrote:
| Unrelated, but it makes me will warm and fuzzy inside to see my
| very old picture used as this website' background [0].
|
| 0: https://vlad.studio/wallpaper/tend_to_zero_hot
| verst wrote:
| That reminded me that I have a lifetime Premium Subscription to
| your wallpapers I bought in 2009 (which already is many many
| years after first discovering your wallpapers). I still love
| your artwork. Now to figure out which wallpaper to use... :)
| filmgirlcw wrote:
| Hah, and I checked and I did too, in 2008! Thank you Vlad!
|
| And hi Bernd!
| vladstudio wrote:
| yeah i am that old :-)
| verst wrote:
| By the way, just installed your new tab page extension and
| love it. Seriously! Even left you a review on the Chrome
| Webstore :)
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