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ssl-3today at 7:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

Man, I sure knew 35 years ago that whatever I shared in public was.... public. :)

And some of it still is public from way back then -- including dumb and ugly comments, stupid flamewars, teenager stuff, and phone numbers. It doesn't bother me.

I don't feel remorseful for having once been a kid and doing some of the dumb things that kids sometimes feel inclined to do, and those landline telephone numbers stopped being relevant to me decades ago.


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CalRoberttoday at 7:48 AM

Public or not 1991 was a very, very, very different time. The idea that some dumb stuff I posted would still be around in 30+ years would have been crazy.

(Actually, I wonder if the Prodigy forums got archived...)

stackghosttoday at 7:50 AM

35 years ago we didn’t have the cultural precedent/zeitgeist of getting cancelled for some stupid shit you wrote on a message board in 1991 so we were less guarded with our opinions.

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