LWN: Comments on "Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary"

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claude.bing — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:51:00 +0000

Maybe a monthly schedule would prevent burnout on the issue. Not every week had notable occurrences either!

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

ballombe — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:47:47 +0000

Provide a browser extension!

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

mtaht — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:34:07 +0000

The modern internet has taken a lot of the fun out. I am really big on giving credit, and I miss the days when folk like jwz were the rock stars.

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

rsidd — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:50:10 +0000

Doesn't work in modern firefox either

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

mtaht — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:43:02 +0000

happy birthday, lwn. It's been great aging with you.

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

mtaht — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:41:40 +0000

about:jwz doesn't work in chrome. :(

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

ballombe — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:25:53 +0000

<< I dug up the old CVS archive, checked out those old web site source revs, and then I had to run that website-generating perl script that I wrote 25 years ago.
...it worked without any modifications. Self-high-five.>>

Something need to be said about not breaking backward compatibility.

History

jani — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:21:30 +0000

I'd forgotten about that! That was probably more effort than what I had in mind here.

History

corbet — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:00:03 +0000

We used to do a "this week in history" section, many years ago, but kind of ran out of time and energy to keep it up. Perhaps it's time to revisit that...

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)

flussence — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:57:50 +0000

I had two of those (sadly not in a single motherboard) as late as 2009. I wouldn't describe those numbers as a screamer today, but software was a bit more frugal back then...

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

jani — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:42:45 +0000

Perhaps LWN should start a new section "Weekly Edition 25 Years Ago", with the best bits from quarter of a century ago!

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)

jem — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:35:19 +0000

The style of these early LWN issues is somewhat reminiscent of what the first issues of Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia looked like.

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)

MortenSickel — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:45:23 +0000

This one from the 2nd is also pretty good:

There was also an article on Linux in SunWorld Online. It is reasonably complementary, though it does focus a bit on limitations. "Linux isn't Solaris". Well, we knew that, but not everybody thinks it's a disadvantage.

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

wtarreau — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 03:50:50 +0000

> So, um, happy belated birthday, LWN.net!

Yeah I was thinking the same. Reading these news about changes in 2.1.80 reminded me these good old days when many of us were running 2.1 in production because it included knfsd which allowed to recycle old hardware and turn it into a very fast local file server capable of saturating a 100 Mbps NIC. I did this at my first job with a 486DX2/66 with 8 MB RAM, it was awesome, it quickly became the development server for the whole team! Good luck trying to start /sbin/init with 6.2-rc on such a machine nowadays!

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary (and LWN's)

dskoll — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:59:06 +0000

I love this text from the first LWN Weekly Edition.

The best bet for folks looking for multiprocessor screamer systems is to wait until Spring or so when the "deschutes" (400 MHz Pentium II) comes out;

Zawinski: mozilla.org's 25th anniversary

james — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:55:54 +0000

So, um, happy belated birthday, LWN.net!