Perusing the web source: `<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="NetObjects Fusion 11 for Windows"/>`. A tool developed in 1996...

I remember when you could find someone's home address in the white pages of the phone book.

Back in the day, I looked up a minor celebrity in my hometown and just... knocked on his door one afternoon and had a nice chat. Can't wait to explain this to my grandchildren.

I guess sending threats then required more of sending a physical mail, which could be used with better effect in dealing with threats?

And you could opt out if you wanted.

Another example: Olives

We called it "watermelon paper" since the stripes had green tint.

It's a great commit message, but could be even better with "TL;DR non-breaking space in a comment can cause parser problems".

Unlike the old days of broadcast TV when the networks had to produce shows that appealed to the broadest possible audience, Netflix can, and does, produce shows that appeal to a narrow demographic. This results in a sliver of shows that are highly appealing amidst a lot of stuff perceived as "garbage." But what a teenage boy thinks is garbage differs widely from what a retired grandma things is garbage. To each their own.

It will be interesting to see if the revival of the printed Rock & Roll magazine Creem https://www.creem.com will find enough Boomer nostalgia to succeed. If so, then maybe PopSci too. Not holding my breath, however.

PostScript is a fascinating programming language. Back in the 90s I wrote a program to filter Rich Text to PostScript. One of the formatting options is "full justification" which adjusts the width of inter-word spacing to achieve smooth left and right margins. The code to accomplish this is written in PostScript. https://github.com/excitom/rt2ps

This is what I love hacker news, a comment from an actual subject matter expert.

I think a key is that you need to provide your real identity and you are discouraged from trolling/being a jerk since future employers and coworkers will see it on display.