That thing when you notice a bunch of retired folk who have endorsed an ex-coworker for a dead tech ( XML ) and you pre-date it by knowing the great grand-father of the fossil that was its predecessors predecessor?
Just pretend that predates you and carry on 
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Replying to @darachennis
methinks he's still thinking about partial failure of distributed objects
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Replying to @PaulsPrattle
@phickey introduced me to that paper and I'm forever grateful, he was librarian to legions at IONA and a cherished soul to many - Pierce had a bigger impact to Distributed Systems than most folk will ever know.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @darachennis @phickey
Fair point. It made such an impact on you I still remember it.
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Replying to @PaulsPrattle @phickey
In fairness though, we had FreeBSD, Declan, Chewy and the first 500 people in Ireland on the Internet - so tip of the hat to IOL, and Barry Flanagan...
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Screw that. Captain Beefheart and Steve Vai were on primenet and we'd be on email ... Netscape killed the internetz with frames and the internet off switch... 
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