excerpt from tymnet's wikipedia page

In January 1999, both XKL servers (ticket and token) were decommissioned. In late 2003 the hardware left onsite in San Jose was accidentally scrapped by the facilities manager during a scheduled cleanup.

ouch! big bad mistake, there should be a program like national monuments funded by the state to protect pieces of history of the computing age like this one which faded into oblivion due to not enough people knowing about the shceduled decommission or planned out phasing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet

from one of my favorite blogs, techrepublic

Ruby (which is one of my favorite languages because it is so expressive) can very easily be monkey patched into an indecipherable nightmare, while I’ve seen PHP (a language that encourages badly organized code to the point that I’ve often said it must stand for Page Hacked to Pasta) that was so clear and well-organized it would make you weep tears of joy.

The theory is not as important as the way you put it into practice.

this is part of an article, I didn't write it, but it is SO great that I took the freedom to reproduce it here, the full article is probably at techrepublic.com

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