From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 1997 - 04:10:11 MDT
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Guru George wrote:
> For example, I remember reading somewhere that the
> guy who thought up the idea of shareware (or was the first to put the
> idea into action?) got the idea while tripping! Most computer nerds are
> at least stoners, are they not?
Beer seems to be drug of choice in the UK... but in one of his magazine
articles from the sixties Hunter S. Thompson mentioned that many of the
Haight-Ashbury hippies worked as computer programmers. I don't have the
book handy to give a reference.
Mark
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