Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014)
Freshmeat, Slashdot, Everything2, Advogato, and more. Relics from a time when the Internet felt like a wild frontier.<p>The immense buzz when Mozilla open sourced Navigator/Firefox. The crazy first day of the IPO of VA Software (+698% above initial price!!!)<p>Tweaking settings to get the best X11+Enlightenment speed possible, although I decided I preferred WindowMaker. Feeling like Open Source and Linux would take over the world (It did, really). Developers conferences at Apple to discuss this crazy upcoming Unix-based MacOS. (one of the presenters made a joke about how easy it would be to install apps, you'd just open a terminal and run "/bin/install --etc" and laughed at the horror on the faces of the assembled Mac evangelists)<p>I feel like an old hippie, trying to tell people what Woodstock was like and why it was special, only to see their confusion and lack of really <i>getting it</i>.<p>Not much of a point to this comment, just a big old nostalgia bomb early in my morning :)