Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/29/07 08:26

Ed Mullen wrote:
> 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.

Fershure!

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