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· Naughties
· · 2009
· · · June
· · · · 20 (1 entry)
Erik Naggum, R.I.P. ·
Erik was a flamer’s flamer, back in the golden days of Usenet. He was reflexively averse to the mainstream; a proponent of SGML before descriptive markup was fashionable, he peeled away from the community when XML hit the big time, vanishing in a puff of pungent sulfurous smoke. I think he’s left an important lesson behind him ... [9 comments]
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