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I am a writer, developer, futurist, and one-half of the Knotty Geeks podcast.
Interests: Astronomy, newLISP, Science Fiction.
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OSY 1.0 brought back from the dead
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Wed Feb 29 14:55:12 2012 | |
 Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Hello, OSYers! After playing around on the WayBack Machine for a while, I found that it had actually archived some of OSY 1.0, and I got all Nostalgic for the old days. Sadly, it only grabbed the main forum index and a handful of threads-- most of them were lost forever. Or were they? I had made a backup of all the data files from OSY 1.0, which used IkonBoard, an early Perl-based web BBS that stored all its messages in text-file format (not the most efficient, but certainly handy in this case!) I tried to revive the IkonBoard scripts, but they kept failing in mysterious ways, and I thought: wait a minute, why am I tearing my hear out trying to restore an ancient forum software when I could just retrieve said messages by writing some new code? So I did. In the process I learned a bit about regular expression syntax and CSS tables, and learning stuff is always good. Sadly, about one-third of OSY 1.0 is gone ACTUALLY forever... My backups clearly weren’t kept up to date. Then there was the great Pruning Disaster of 2001, which erased a bunch of older messages as well.  But the earliest messages are there, and from 2001-2002 it’s pretty much all there.I present to you, in chronological order, OSY 1.0! http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1 | |
| AllYorBaseRBelong2Us | Posted on: Thu Mar 1 08:01:21 2012 | |
 Joined: Sun Dec 5 06:23:12 2010 | AYB sounded stupid back then...... Wheeeeeee! smam 
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| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Mon Mar 5 14:13:26 2012 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Trust me, we all sounded stupider back then. I think that’s a good thing... it means we’ve grown not only older but wiser in the intervening years. Here’s a short list of memorable threads I found in the OSY 1.0 archives: http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1036 - Where is JR? He got married! http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1038 - Madan and PeterB discuss IT staff and their relationship to business http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1175 - So my dad’s in the hospital http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1367 - My dad just died... http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1502 - installing openstep and posting to the web http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1562 - my 30th birthday http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1628 - writing the first book in the Pegasus trilogy http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1664 - the OSY version of Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Smam) http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1750 - leads to a discussion of Tolkien http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1677 - a story about my former crazy company http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1680 - I want to write the history of the Amiga http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1730 - Harb gives me Deathbed Vigil video and tells stories http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1730 - First chapter of Amiga book http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1704 - I want to write an OSY web game http://jeremyreimer.com/monarch/m-osy1?m=1729 - This is how OSY 1.0 responded to trolling. Epic! | |
| Magus | Posted on: Tue Apr 10 10:19:04 2012 | |
 Joined: Sun Mar 20 17:57:47 2011 | Ah yes, the sheer lunacy that was Madan... Predictions that .NET wouldn’t go mainstream... Laughing at the rampant trolling on Ars... Good times. | |
| Jeremy Reimer | Posted on: Tue Apr 10 11:42:05 2012 | |
Joined: Fri Nov 19 10:21:20 2010 | Sometimes I wonder what happened to Madan. He’s basically impossible to find on the Interwebs these days. All his old email addresses are defunct, and he has such a generic real life name that it is impossible to search for him. Ah, memories... | |
