Talk:Brian Reid (computer scientist)

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It says in the article that Brian Reid's experiment with the Usenet Cookbook was an early web publishing project. I vividly remember subscribing to this in approximately 1986, well before the World Wide Web was envisioned. It's more accurate to say that it was a distributed Internet publishing experiment. It also used troff/nroff formatting, in the style of Unix "man" pages, rather than HTML, GML, SGML or anything of that ilk. As I recall, what was novel about it was that it was a moderated group, that attempted to maintain some quality of the recipes. I think there was some sort of voting system to encourage comments on individual recipes. I think there were 3-4 or maybe 5 recipes released each week, which could be printed and inserted in a binder. Brent 01:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

"He was fired in February 2004, nine days before Google's IPO," cannot be accurate, as the IPO was in late summer of '04. I see from the reference that it should be nine days before the announcement of teh IPO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.123.180.213 (talk) 20:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incomplete?

Over on "Google to employees: don't get old if you want to keep your job", I see in the first comment a long list of accomplishments which don't seem to all be included. --Gwern (contribs) 20:06 8 October 2007 (GMT)

Linked site is currently 404. 121.45.185.9 (talk) 02:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)