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I remember going to RubyConf 2004 in Reston. DHH was there talking about Rails. I was sitting there with like 30 other people listening to him and thinking "I dunno man, cgi.rb pretty much does the job for me". If I had been thinking straight I would have rewritten RubyForge in Rails and never looked back... oh well!

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I wasn't at RubyConf 2004 (back then I thought Ruby was some weird Perl-ish language from Japan, not worth my attention) but for my RailsConf talk I dug up some old blog posts about what it was like when DDH first spoke about Rails at that conference.

Jamis Buck was there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2004/10/2/rubyconf-day-two

Francis Hwang: http://fhwang.net/2004/10/03/RubyConf-2004-Day-2

It's amazing how few people were there and how marginal Ruby was in 2004.

Yeah I only was using it because I was working for Rich Kilmer at InfoEther. We were doing a DARPA gig and I wrote a thing in Java, and Rich said "no no rewrite all that in Ruby". A far-sighted fellow that Kilmer.

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