It truly looks like they didn’t learn anything from Clippy…

Yes, everything at CERN, at least in the 2000s, was in AFS. Fermilab was also using AFS extensively.

I remember compiling AFS from source for Scientific Linux 3.x because there was a weird bug that didn't let the machines mount AFS when they were integrated with LCG (before it was renamed to WLCG: https://wlcg.web.cern.ch/)

Oh my... this comment really dates me...

Well I'm 50 but AFS in college was superior to all the NFS and NIS silliness I've put up with at the 8 companies I've worked at since then. I wrote another comment about our Unix groups at work and how we have a setuid root command that we type in our password and it changes our groups dynamically.

+1 to this.

Thanks a lot for going through this rabbit hole for all of us. Comments like this is why I am here every day!

Jobs tried to hire Torvalds to work on Mac OS X and Linus declined: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/03/22/steve-jobs-tried-to-hir...

Hard to imagine Torvalds working on a microkernel, of all people

Cabrera is also an interesting one. With a sinister history in the XIX Century though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrera,_Balearic_Islands

Truly unexpected. Thanks for sharing!

I’ve been lucky enough to see in person many of these pieces when they were exhibited in DFJ’s offices in Sand Hill Road (~2017-2018). It’s an extraordinary collection.

The tour is amazing: https://youtu.be/4FOF0f70Hoc

Back in the Sixties the Russians already had two secret space stations in orbit with working machine guns: https://youtu.be/4FOF0f70Hoc?t=408

I don't know much about Jurvetson (apart from him being a VC) but his passion, enthusiasm, and deep knowledge of each of these items in the video is infectious.

Very cool stuff.

It was Theo Gray:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kcfGsOKXO5M&cbrd=1

I can imaging Apple mulling about the same for iOS. Microsoft is on a roll and they have the money to challenge Google’s default place in our pockets.