It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece.
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
@overholt tell us about the old ways, Dyl.
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@overholt when they say “old typewriter font” they mean plain text, right? Email as nature intended.
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
@overholt “in old typewriter font”? the thing is, i highly doubt whomever wrote this ever used a typewriter.
such a weird sentence to describe a choice of plaintext font that wasn’t standard at all. the monospace is declared but what’s rendered is whichever font you have designated for monospace.
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@overholt “in old typewriter font”? the thing is, i highly doubt whomever wrote this ever used a typewriter.
such a weird sentence to describe a choice of plaintext font that wasn’t standard at all. the monospace is declared but what’s rendered is whichever font you have designated for monospace.
@blogdiva Wikipedia says he graduated college a year after I did, so I would expect him to have some experience of typewriters--I took a typing class in high school, but we produced our school newspaper on fancy new Macs.
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
@overholt It wasn't even necessary to reply-all, of course, and some forms of etiquette called for not doing that, since you could just reply to the list and the list would distribute to all the members...
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
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@overholt “in old typewriter font”? the thing is, i highly doubt whomever wrote this ever used a typewriter.
such a weird sentence to describe a choice of plaintext font that wasn’t standard at all. the monospace is declared but what’s rendered is whichever font you have designated for monospace.
@blogdiva @overholt A lot of people used courier in newsreaders which was originally developed for typewriters in the 50s. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2059 But I don’t recall seeing it when using mailing lists, my earliest memory of those was on an Apple computer with a bitmap font, probably Monaco.
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@overholt If you did this cryptic stuff, then maybe you are Satoshi Nakamoto
@jimfl that was my first thought, Adam Back (Bitcoin famous) was one of them in the 90's
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It is remarkable to see something like this explained as though it was the technique for casting bronze in Ancient Greece. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.OETP.MPLF9R5oa0F1&smid=url-share
@overholt 1995 was in fact six thousand years ago
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@overholt 1995 was in fact six thousand years ago
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