The focus of the news all seems to be looking back 50 years

Shrdlu shared a link said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 12:49pm ET

Every where I turn, it’s 1968 this, and 1968 that. Some of the articles are so vacuous that it makes me want to stab my eyes, but this one was very well written, and worth reading.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-st-1968-vietnam-tv-hendrix-essay-fleishman-20180420-story.html

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Shrdlu said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 12:57pm ET:

Just in case you need a little uplift, after reading through the article above (you did read it all, right?)…

“In 1968, moviegoers had a lot more choices before blockbuster fever took over”

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-1968-movies-choices-20180420-story.html

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- @Shrdlu I remember seeing almost all of that list with my family. Mom would pop corn and we would go to the drive-in wearing our PJ’s.
  
  That would be another thing different today. Many, if not most of the films are not child appropriate.
  
  therealjrn said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 1:08pm ET
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  (you did read it all, right?)…
  
  Not any of it, yet. But I will.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 7:48pm ET
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- @Shrdlu
  
  That Fleishman article is a wonder. Thanks.
  
  Does anyone need a reason to click over?
  
  Opener:
  
  I was 9 years old. My father was at war.
  
  I watched Vietnam every night on TV, wind blowing through the tall grass of a distant land, numbers of the fallen flashing on the screen, all in black and white, a war in two colors, scary and real in my living room, ticking away in the hour before the latest rerun of “Sea Hunt,” my favorite show, even though I knew then, as a boy, that pretend things didn’t last in a world coming undone.
  
  …
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 8:09pm ET
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- @Shrdlu Theaters were a lot better too
  
  Smitty2525 said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 8:41pm ET
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mikibell said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 1:16pm ET:

We are revisiting @Mfladd’s childhood???

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- @mikibell
  
  mfladd said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 4:34pm ET
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- @mfladd @mikibell
  
  /giphy peace and love, peace and love
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 7:40pm ET
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- @mfladd
  
  mikibell said Wed, Apr 25th 2018 at 6:34am ET
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Pavlov said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 4:47pm ET:

Everything is a reboot.

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Smitty2525 said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 5:10pm ET:

And just how groovy it all is!

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- @cranky1950
  
  That song was released 1967 I think. “Summer Of Love”, as they called it.
  1968 saw this one:
  
  I guess all the hippies took notice of the '68 song and the nice weather around San Jose, and decided to move to San Jose or the various surrounding areas, and then some of them started tech companies, became billionaires, acted now and then as tho they were implicitly enlightenment personified, drove property values to beyond jaw-dropping levels, and sometimes bought suits for when they have to testify before Congress.
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 8:21pm ET
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- @f00l But it charted for 2 years
  
  Smitty2525 said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 8:35pm ET
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- @cranky1950
  
  I love that song. Nothing wrong with it.
  
  I don’t much wanna know the way to San Jose anymore tho. Not in 2018.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 9:15pm ET
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- @f00l …except those events are unrelated. The people that showed up for the summer of love (and the winter of discontent) wandered off. Those that started all the tech in Silicon Valley were a generation or two younger. Yuppies, not hippies, for the most part.
  
  Shrdlu said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 9:35pm ET
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- @f00l not no more too many found it.
  
  Smitty2525 said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 9:41pm ET
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- @Shrdlu
  
  I wanted to play out a (lame-ish) joke about that lovely song from 1968 and what San Jose was then and what it has become.
  
  So I messed with the timeline by implication for the sake of the joke.
  
  Esp with that last bit about buying a suit in order to do a “tech star turn” before Congress. I know our current crop of social media founders and free-services-in-exchange-for-all-your-info bosses are a younger gen.
  
  “Knowing dissembling by implication” for a barely-there joke. Was is worth it? Prob not.
  
  Please forgive.
  However, a bunch of the original PC people are very close to my age.
  
  Here’s Gladwell’s (possibly, unwittingly “salted” or confirm-biased; Gladwell is enthusiastic) list of tech notables from the 1950s, within a few years of me:
  
  Bill Gates, Microsoft Founder : October 28, 1955
  Bill Joy : SUN Co-Founder November 8, 1954
  Scott McNealy : SUN Co-Founder November 13, 1954
  Steve Jobs : Founder Apple. February 24, 1955
  Eric Schmidt: Google & Novell CEO: April 27 1955
  Paul Allen: Microsoft Founder: January 21, 1953
  Steve Balmer Microsoft Founder: March 24, 1956
  Vinod Khosla SUN Co-Founder January 28, 1955
  Andy Bechtolsheim SUN Co-Founder September 30, 1955
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 10:13pm ET
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- @Shrdlu
  
  Let’s see if this better list will paste
  
  Company Person
  Birth Year Decade
  
  Novell Raymond Noorda
  1924 1920
  
  Intel Robert Norton Noyce
  1927 1920
  
  Intel Gordon Moore
  1929 1920
  
  Adobe Charles Geschke
  1939 1930
  
  Adobe John Warnock
  1940 1940
  
  SAP Dietmar Hopp
  1940 194
  
  PeopleSoft Dave Duffield
  1941 1940
  
  Oracle Larry Ellison
  1944 1940
  
  SGI James H. Clark
  1944 194
  
  SAP Hasso Plattner
  1944 1940
  
  Computer Associates Charles Wang
  1944 1940
  
  BMC John Moores
  1944 1940
  
  McAfee John McAfee
  1945 1940
  
  Symantec Gary Hendrix
  1948 1940
  
  Apple Steve Wazniak
  1950 1950
  
  Intuit Scott Cook
  1952 1950
  
  Siebel Tom Siebel
  1952 1950
  
  Microsoft Paul Allen
  1953 1950
  
  Sun Microsystems Bill Joy
  1954 1950
  
  Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy
  1954 1950
  
  Microsoft Bill Gates
  1955 1950
  
  Apple Steve Jobs
  1955 195
  
  Google Eric Schmidt
  1955 1950
  
  Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla
  1955 1950
  
  Sun Microsystems Andy Bechtolsheim
  1955 1950
  
  Microsoft Steve Balmer
  1956 1950
  
  Macromedia Marc Canter
  1957 1950
  
  AOL Steve Case
  1958 1950
  
  Adobe/SGI Shantanu Narayen
  1964 1960
  
  SalesForce Marc Benioff
  1964 1960
  
  Amazon Jeff Bezos
  1964 1960
  
  Dell Michael Dell
  1965 1960
  
  Yahoo David Filo
  1966 1960
  
  eBay Pierre Omidyar
  1967 1960
  
  PayPal Peter Thiel
  1967 1960
  
  Yahoo Jerry Yang
  1968 1960
  
  Netscape Marc Andreessen
  1971 1970
  
  Google Sergey Brin
  1973 1970
  
  Google Larry Page
  1973 1970
  
  PayPal Max Levchin
  1975 1970
  
  Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
  1984 1980
  
  From:
  
  WERE MOST SOFTWARE MILLIONAIRES BORN AROUND 1955?
  
  by Jeff Sauro | November 17, 2010
  
  https://measuringu.com/
  I have, now and then, sold my soul, so to speak, for even lamer moments than that small joke attempt. I do 'fess up tho, usually. I think.
  I hope.
  
  I should have known…
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 10:22pm ET
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Shrdlu said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 6:38pm ET:

/youtube war what is it good for

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f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 7:38pm ET:

I was planning to do a 1968 topic.

Maybe over Memorial Day weekend when I had time to put it together.

Memorable year.

/image Tet Offensive

Jan 1968

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- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968
  
  Seems like I recall one or two things happening.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 7:45pm ET
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  Smitty2525 said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 8:38pm ET
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daveinwarsh said Tue, Apr 24th 2018 at 7:59pm ET:

Yeah, '68 was quite the year… I was in 9th grade.
There were “Love-Ins” at Mission Bay. (San Diego).
The news on TV showed war every evening.

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