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High Performance lewman.com, Part Two

In further thoughts about high performance websites, I thought about expanding on my own experiences with my side-hobby on my domain, lewman.com. I'm not talking about this blog, yet. The blog is hosted on Wordpress.com…

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20 years of Internet Relay Chat

20 years ago, I decided to stop hacking around, join an IRC network, and make friends. I chose SlashNet because I was reading Slashdot regularly. Since I was already on their IRC server, I figured…

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The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol

Retrospective on gopher, https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol It was fun running the Babson College gopher/wais server for a while. Original post: Link Source: The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol

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