LOL, I was thinking the same thing, Dave! :) Like young Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, could I have known what evil lay within (that booth)?? :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "david" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 10:58:41 AM Subject: Re: [nlug] Found some old pics - LinuxWorld 1999 - Day 3 - 08/10/1999 Wow, Even a picture of the Caldera booth before they became suicidal. Dave On 2020-12-07 10:51, Curt Lundgren wrote: > Those were the days! I attended a LinuxWorld in the Moscone Center, > don't remember the year. What impressed me more than anything else > was the preponderance of MacBook Pros being lugged around by all my > fellow geeks. They ran Unix, after all, and you could get under the > hood in terminal or xterm so easily. > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:33 AM mjbtn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't know that any one of you even cares to look at any of these, >> but here they are nonethe less! :) I recall at the time thinking, >> "Wow! All this just for Linux?!??". Of course, the next day, >> 08/11/1999, was the day Red Hat's IPO hit Wall Street. Because I had >> taken so many shots on Day 3, I didn't bother lugging around my >> trusty Kodak DC260 digital camera (a bit of a brick by today's >> standards). Most unfortunate that I didn't, though, as the place was >> swarming all around the Red Hat booth. And, I missed a great photo >> op with Linus himself over by the Hard Hat Linux / MontaVista >> Software booth. In looking back through these now, over 2 decades >> later, what has come out of the Linux world is nothing short of >> mindboggling! We went back to LinuxWorld 2003 at Macone Center in >> San Francisco, and the massively expanded grandeur of that 2003 >> event over the 1999 one proved beyond a shadow that Linux's ship had >> indeed arrived big time. At any length, I thought that someone >> besides just me might enjoy some blasts from the past, that in >> truth, really doesn't seem like so long ago. Time flies when you're >> having fun, eh?! :) >> >> https://lychee.raider.net/#16073546086429 >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >> send an email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/cdb770d2-b33f-43d3-a8c4-627bdbe13596n%40googlegroups.com >> [1]. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtro2CjK3Jk6dXCgF-%3DT9%2BM4SEvOmQTgvoptHbAAeeuNVQg%40mail.gmail.com > [2]. > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/cdb770d2-b33f-43d3-a8c4-627bdbe13596n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > [2] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtro2CjK3Jk6dXCgF-%3DT9%2BM4SEvOmQTgvoptHbAAeeuNVQg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/3bda5cc8bab7417f73124e50d0126331%40wwns.com. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/1376598068.60547.1607360514155.JavaMail.zimbra%40jobsoft.com.
