Ze Frank on the British Airplane terror incident
Edit: Watch this episode of the show with zefrank.
I was reading The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. and one chunk of the text seemed very familiar to me. What does this sound like to you?
Each user would consult it from a display terminal. A change summary, prepared daily, would be stored in LIFO fashion at a fixed access point. The programmer would probably read that daily, but if he missed a day he would need only read longer the next day.
Go on, take a guess.
Did you guess?
…
…
It sounds very much like a description of a feed and an feed-aggregator. What really threw me for a loop was the copyright date on the book: 1975.
To quote a friend’s response to this info, “1975. It only took about 25 years before it really took off.”
