224: Heavy Metal Twenty-Something Swagger

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Book club returns this week, now that we've both read id Software founder John Romero's memoir, Doom Guy: Life in First Person. Join us for an extremely nerdy chat about Romero's early days as a teenage Apple II developer learning 6502 assembly, the pre-id team's blistering one-game-a-month output at Softdisk, technical innovations that led to id's most groundbreaking games, the internal strife that ultimately split the company, retrospective thoughts on a very different mid-'90s Doom 3 than the one we got later, and a bunch more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Brad, I found myself on Usenet the other day.
0:02.4	That's a great place to be.
0:03.7	Well, I found myself on old Usenet on Google Groups.
0:06.2	That's an even better place to be.
0:07.6	I mean, I've certainly got my issues about how Google Groups has evolved over time.
0:11.7	It's kind of what I wanted to talk about because I like I've noticed that the search on Google Groups has gotten worse.
0:18.5	Oh, yeah.
0:18.9	No, that's that is a long, that's a year's long problem.
0:21.2	Like, you can find, like, ours articles and stuff about it of people, of complaints about, like, they are just letting Google groups to back up for a second.
0:28.7	Google bought the Deja News Usenet Archive years and years ago.
0:32.2	Like 20 years ago, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's been ages, but basically Google is in possession of a massive archive of Usenet from the, I don't know if it goes back to the seven, probably the 80s, sometime
0:41.0	in the 80s.
0:41.6	Like, it's definitely like the place, the area I'm interested is when it started getting
0:44.7	popular in the 90s when people were using it as a message board.
0:47.5	Yes.
0:48.0	But yeah, so like they integrated that entire archive into Google groups. And then over time, the search functionality has continued to decay to the point that you can barely search, like, you can't even really search an individual groups easily anymore. There's a big banner on there now. They are disabling the ability to post to Usenet through Google groups very soon. I'm kind of okay with that. I think that's fine. Yes. I don't need to, I don't need to post to you.
1:11.4	Although,
1:12.4	what if I did?
1:13.0	You know,
1:13.3	you got a Usenet account.
1:14.4	Yeah,
1:14.6	download your,
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