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Orphans of Netscape authored by solderpunk mentions failed rocket launches as
context for the optimism around space exploration. Towards the end of his life,
Nobel physicist Richard Feynman was deeply involved in studying and explaining
The Challenger Disaster.
An almost universally conserved biographical feature amoung physicists like
Feynman was that in his youth, he repaired broken radios for his pocket money.
After successfully juicing up his radio receiver, he enthusiastically listened
to Italian language broadcasts that only his powered up radio could catch
despite not knowing word one of Italian, and this was a foundational
autobiographical anecdote for him.
Listeners to aNONradio know that 0600UTC is the Audio Theater slot, featuring
exciting historical radio plays Brought To You by Camel Cigarettes - Trust Your
T-zone To Tell You If Camel Cigarettes Are Right For You.
Radios in the radio era meant listening to page-turner radio plays and
advertisements for overtly evil businesses. Yet we can find in biographies that
repairing radios is a strongly conserved childhood memory amoung groups like
physicists. Another note in Feynman's autobiography was that he was very typical
of his undergraduate classmates at university (such as having been a radio
repair-er), not standing out as he later did.
The smallnet or outernet is modern radio repair. Like Feynman managing to
capture a far away radio signal and avidly listening to it, just getting to read
the gopher, gemini and such fringes of the internet as covered by others
requires at least a specialty browser to support those different but
amicable-to-tinkering protocols.
Popular modern corporate social media silos are today's cigarette companies.
Birdsite's dive was Camel Cigarettes becoming a parody of itself for how
shark-jumpingly evil they were.
Another feature of Feynman's personal history is that it was no accident that he
and his sister became celebrated physicists. Their father did everything he
could their entire lives to specifically make it happen. It's hard to reach the
smallnet - even to know that it's there - without a close, maybe familial
connection to it.
