Posted by Ed Mullen on 11/29/07 03:15

Sherman Pendley wrote:
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> writes:
>
>> And the ever popular...
>>
>> Come on and zoom zoom zoom-a zoom.
>
> You guys are making me homesick for Boston. I had the privilege of working
> as lead developer for two seasons of the 90s Zoom's web site. Remember
> "send it to Zoom"? CamelBones was intended to replace the FileMaker and
> MacPerl scripts that were used to manage the thousands of submissions a
> week, and beat them into static HTML pages for publication on the web site.
>
> Sadly, by the time I got enough round tuits to actually write CamelBones,
> I had already moved on and no longer worked at WGBH. I still give 'em
> credit for inspiring the project though.

WGBH deserves a lifetime of kudos. For a time WGBH WAS PBS. they
produced the vast majority of network content back then. Yes, kudos to
WGBH for anything they did, even the questionable. If not for them
there might not be any Public Broadcasting today.

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