I have had my mindglue@io.com account for almost 17 years. I am...not really sure what to do. I'm having a digital identity crisis. I have my email archived from 1995. I have...hundreds of emails from various internet services in my "accounts" folder.
I guess I'm going to have to spend the next month contacting them all, one by one.
Isn't worshipping the past one of the things that makes other fields faulter and stagnate? Sure, we shouldn't forget how cool people like Turing and Ada and Pascal were, but thats no reason to build metal idols for them.
I'd hate to think that somewhere down the line, some government would re-allocate better-spent money to build statues of Gates or Steve Case (not that they have any big coolness factor) just because someone thought we should remember their contributions to the technology field.
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I have had my mindglue@io.com account for almost 17 years. I am...not really sure what to do. I'm having a digital identity crisis. I have my email archived from 1995. I have...hundreds of emails from various internet services in my "accounts" folder.
I guess I'm going to have to spend the next month contacting them all, one by one.
*sniffle*
Isn't worshipping the past one of the things that makes other fields faulter and stagnate? Sure, we shouldn't forget how cool people like Turing and Ada and Pascal were, but thats no reason to build metal idols for them.
I'd hate to think that somewhere down the line, some government would re-allocate better-spent money to build statues of Gates or Steve Case (not that they have any big coolness factor) just because someone thought we should remember their contributions to the technology field.