Yes, true, a longtime lurker. Actually I did sign up earlier (much earlier) probably while using Mosaic which at the time I thought was just the berries. Unfortunately, I forgot my username or indeed what email address I had then. In addition, there was a while during which/. discussions were too raunchy and low class IMHO, too often. I think the overall tenor of it has gone up in quality (aside: Thanks, moderators. You guys have a mostly thankless job and it looks to me like you deserve medals.)
BTW, I still do use Lynx quite often. If you want rendering speed there's nothing like it I know of (oh yeah, I know links et al, but you know what I mean).
As to the golden years, I think they were exactly that in at least one way. To wit: I still remember the first time I saw an advertisement on the web (it might have even been before the web). I was profoundly offended that anyone would do anything so classless on my internet;-)
Number one: I love what I do. Number two: My phone rings. I actually turn down offers due to commitments. Started out back in the Middle Ages on mainframes and moved on to AS400's (love those beasts). Since I learned C early on in a Nix system, within a couple of years of when Linus put it out there on the Net, I set up a Linux box at home because I liked Nix so much. Eventually a company I worked for put a Linux box in front of their AS400 where the website was hosted in order to place a 'sacrificial' machine out in front with a lot of scripting on it. Suddenly my Nix skills got to be in demand there. Lately almost all I do is LAMP based web sites and web apps + Linux admin. Somebody here mentioned that you become the guy everybody goes to in order to ask, "How do I..." That happens on a lot for me.
Keep on keepin' on. Get new languages as you need them. Be flexible. Number one, above, probably has an awful lot to do with it.
When I started using the Internet there was almost nothing out there but Nix or Mainframe command lines. If you couldn't handle those you were SOL. I started reading/. very early on when it and the web were new. Still read it almost every day. Good going, Taco.
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Yes, true, a longtime lurker. Actually I did sign up earlier (much earlier) probably while using Mosaic which at the time I thought was just the berries. Unfortunately, I forgot my username or indeed what email address I had then. In addition, there was a while during which /. discussions were too raunchy and low class IMHO, too often. I think the overall tenor of it has gone up in quality (aside: Thanks, moderators. You guys have a mostly thankless job and it looks to me like you deserve medals.)
BTW, I still do use Lynx quite often. If you want rendering speed there's nothing like it I know of (oh yeah, I know links et al, but you know what I mean).
As to the golden years, I think they were exactly that in at least one way. To wit: I still remember the first time I saw an advertisement on the web (it might have even been before the web). I was profoundly offended that anyone would do anything so classless on my internet ;-)
Keep on keepin' on. Get new languages as you need them. Be flexible. Number one, above, probably has an awful lot to do with it.
When I started using the Internet there was almost nothing out there but Nix or Mainframe command lines. If you couldn't handle those you were SOL. I started reading /. very early on when it and the web were new. Still read it almost every day. Good going, Taco.