Anno NTK: 15-year-old tech news just keeps on getting better

Cory Doctorow 6:00 pm Mon Jun 3, 2013

It's been just over a year since Anno NTK launched, a kind of Wayback Machine for the wonderful old-school UK tech newsletter Need to Know. Each week, Danny O'Brien will send you a fifteen-year-old edition of NTK, letting you catch up on the tech news of the late 1990s. This week's is especially grand:

Linus "Bigger than Elvis" Torvalds, accompanied by backing
singers Alan Cox and Jamie Zawinski, will be fighting off
the screaming teenage fans at Duke University's LINUX EXPO
'98 this weekend. You're not there, clearly, otherwise you
wouldn't be sober enough to read this. You can, however,
glean a vicarious buzz by reading the inevitable flurry of
announcements on the Website. Not least among them will be
the definitive answer to the "Emacs vs Vi" question
provided, not by a Magic Eightball, but by a magic
*Paintball* face-off. It's the only way.
http://www.linuxexpo.org/
– Linus! Linus! Marry me! MARRY ME!
http://www.linuxexpo.org/paintball.html
– looking forward to the cheers:
"H-J-K-L, what can we pipe through ispell? VI!"
"Give us a '(' – Give us another '('! Give us a '('!…"

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