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Comment by jFriedensreich | Hacker News Reader

One of my favorite documentaries, also because it captures so much personal reality and feeling of what it must have been like, it really inspires me.

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One interesting aspect that I remember about this is the internal NNTP server with a newsgroup known as "Bad Attitude" where frustrations with the products, culture, structure, and other elements of Netscape were shared.

IIRC, "Bad Attitude" was eventually terminated, then a private group known as "Really Bad Attitude" was launched to a chosen few.

Microsoft managed to obtain all of these discussion histories in the discovery phase of its various lawsuits.

https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html

He's redirecting requests coming from hn to a photo of a hairy ball in an egg holder with some mildly insulting text, and setting a cookie so the redirect happens outside of hn links as well. The text even comes with a tone of the moral high ground, so you know he's not being an asshole, just "being honest".

It's fair to say he's not interested in having his views known to readers here.

https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png

https://web.archive.org/web/20260512201857/https://cdn.jwz.o...

I'm standing behind the camera in one of the scenes. At the time I didn't realize they were making a movie. I was just trying to get to lunch.

Also, if you're intrigued by fly-on-the-wall documentaries about historical tech efforts, check out: https://www.generalmagicthemovie.com/

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