284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Adam angst, welcome. This is the first time I can't believe that it's my fault, but welcome to the talk show. |
| 0:05.3 | I |
| 0:07.2 | It's been way too long. I'm looking forward to it. So speaking of too long |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, the motivating factor the hey, let's make this happen event that as Godness here is that tidbits just celebrated |
| 0:28.4 | its 30th anniversary |
| 0:32.5 | Yes, which is it's I believe the word is |
| 0:37.8 | inconceivable and yes, it does mean |
| 0:43.0 | So in some ways I mean you know and it's like my mom always said my mom |
| 0:48.7 | I forget how old she is I guess I shouldn't even say but she's not that old but you know |
| 0:52.7 | But she said this forever like as she hit you know big milestones like 50 and |
| 0:58.2 | 60 and stuff like that that you know she's always had the mindset that look you either hit these milestones or you don't and that means you're dead |
| 1:06.2 | So it's only it's only goodness, right? I mean either either tidbits eventually turned 30 or tidbits went away |
| 1:14.8 | And it's obviously it's a fantastic. It is absolutely fantastic |
| 1:21.3 | But it is but what makes tidbits different and unique |
| 1:26.8 | Is that by having been started in 1990 |
| 1:31.1 | It literally predate it's an it's an online only publication with 30 years of continuous publication under its belt that predates the web |
| 1:42.2 | Yes |
| 1:44.4 | That newfangled web I remember when that started |
| 1:48.8 | I mean, I remember when we first got our we got our first website in |
| 1:52.6 | 1996 and |
| 1:55.6 | It was actually hosted for us at Dartmouth by a guy named Andy Affleck who I'm still friends with to this day |
| 2:05.0 | So how and you know, I bet there are a fair number of people listening who |
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