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Originally Posted by id10t
So heres a great one
When I was 10 I wanted to learn about computers
Craig, one of the slightly older kids at the synagogue mentioned this after school place tgat was half arts/cradts and half programming. Loved it
Craig went to the IB program for high school, I smoke dope and chased skirts.
Craig graduated and went to college (Stanford), I got out of hs didnt have a plan so I got a job in a hospital
1996 Craig was asked to do a start up for a killer business idea involving this new Internet thing. He declined, wanting to finish his masters but said to call him when they were ready for their first real employee.
That little internet nbusiness is still going, you may have heard of Google ....
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I figured I was probably the first Pelican to know about Google ... before I was a
pelican ... I started using it from about day 1 ... purely by accident
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I was on a jam band listserve and this dude started posting "his" menu and joked about trading cookies for worthless potential stock option to geeks at 3am ... all in jest.
He was Charlie ... the first, and new Google Chef ... like employee #60 or something ... also cooked for the Grateful Dead's circus a bit.
Wish I'd never met Kimmie before they married and she was handing out Gmale invites tho' .... the regerts of being "on the road"
I just sorta "fell into" computer science ... back in '78. Had no clue where it would lead ... for me, it was data communications, systems, networks, automation, copper > fiber, etc.
Then came the Internet/Intranets taking over in bigly corporate networks ....
And Steves ... more Steves than I could ever count
In binary ...
I loved being a systems programmer, and networking stuff ... the REAL techie stuff, and had access to the hardware, etc. like few others. Like the consoles (inside of the Big Blue boxes) and had total access to state-of-the-art comm front-end processors (later routers/switches) and literally just about everything that was "bleeding edge" ....
I had a blast
Long ago...