22 May
2020
22 May
'20
12:50 p.m.
>> Recently found a movie Pirates of Silicon
Valley which had some of early
>> Microsoft history
On 5/22/2020 11:50 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> It is a work of fiction, and should be taken as such.
On Fri, 22 May 2020, ben
via cctalk wrote:
Confused here. Pirates or Micosoft history?
Runs.
Ben.
BOTH. Microsoft history is "based on" a true story; and then
fictionalized. As we age, unrefreshed dynamic wetware RAM fades and
distorts, so we remember only certain parts and only in ways that our
brains come up with.
Keep in mind the "blind men and the elephant". Each of the groups
involved in creating the internet has a TOTALLY different concept of what
happened and who the major players were. For example, to what extent was
the motivation for the internet for the purpose of uninterrupted IRS tax
collection after apocalypse?
Pirates is total fantasy that might sorta claim to have been "inspired
by", by those who were not there, and with no factual nor historical
content.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com