Monday, May 26th, 2008
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“we rolled our own subsystem for logging chat messages (in C++) as well as an epoll-driven web server (in Erlang) that holds online users’ conversations in-memory and serves the long-polled HTTP requests. Both subsystems are clustered and partitioned”
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“You’ll use CompuServe’s Electronic Mail system (we call it Email™) to compose, edit and send letters to friends or business associates. The system delivers any number of messages to other users anywhere in North America.”
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“Hypothesis: Sufficiently usable read/write platforms will attract porn and activists. If there’s no porn, the tool doesn’t work. If there’s no activists, the tool doesn’t work well.”
Examples of activist uses of the web, often by political dissidents.
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