Anil Dash
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126 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
Anil Dash’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And like, that sounds like an insane thing to say, but, but I think there was a couple of things that were different.
One, like people had RSS readers, so you could kind of keep a track of a lot of stuff and not everybody updated every day.
So you just could see all the updates.
It was kind of like, you know, if you had like when everybody, like when Twitter was still Twitter and you could kind of read all the updates from everybody at a time.
And, and I think the other thing was there was a
a tool that a researcher named Cameron Marlowe had made called Blogdex.
And links would float up to the top when they were popular.
And so even if you weren't, like, if somebody had not been a regular reader of John's blog, if a bunch of people had linked to his post, it would sort of surface up.
And there would only be
10 or 15, maybe 20 links that were popular today across all blogs.
And also, I think another thing that's really kind of impossible to imagine, there was not that much going on in tech, right?
Like there wasn't like, here's 50 new phones and cameras and whatever are launching every day.
Like it was just like the things that normal people made who were like good hackers was the most interesting things going on in tech.
And, you know, that was the other reason that you were following what an individual developer was making is it was way cooler.
I mean, because again, like you were talking about, like, what is Yahoo doing?
You know, what is Cisco doing?
Like, there was no way that was cooler than what John was doing.
The spirit of everybody was building building blocks for everybody else, right?
And that's very, very different than the environment now.
Everything was open.
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