How soon they forget

I was just writing about LinkedIn again, and was reminded that nobody ever answered the trivia question based on this post:

Who was the original fictitious Rob Carpenter?

A humorous take on programming history

It’s oh-so-retro in these days of YouTube pyrotechnics, but I love this.

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