Pinboard is so old that when it started TEN YEARS AGO TODAY the site earned huge publicity for charging money. The original pricing plan (increase price fractionally with each user) was a bit of marketing genius from @joshu, who is a marketing genius.https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/12/want-to-give-pinboard-a-try-youll-have-to-pay-284/ …
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We store all of your data as objects. Literally, cold, hard, clay objects.
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In a literal glacier!
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man remember what it was like before clay? a song was sung for each bookmark and we taught it to our children
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Those songs also encoded the routes by which IP packets would find their destinations, and the challenges they encountered from noisy cables and ethernet collisions. In many ways they served to demarcate the territories of the Old Internet. A dreamier time
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Still easier to deal with than Mork.
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Jumped onto the NoSQL train early, I see
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