Gregory's Server
@idlestate I think part of our problem online is how many grown adult netizens are too young to remember pets dot com and think the internet they know is how it's always been and will never change
The writing on the wall is that it's all about to collapse. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Discord...it's breaking down fast.
Meanwhile older folks grew up when corporate social sites didn't last that long to begin with.
@lori @idlestate I had completely forgotten about pets.com ...
I remember specifically what I was working on in that time frame, cause it was pretty cool even if the startup doing it failed... Universal DB drivers w/ on the fly syntax translation.
Yeah, sure, it had some bugs... Like actually returning all the rows in a count query on Informix and then actually counting the rows and returning the result.. But.. The idea was cool, and there was some sweet distributed logic/architecture for it.