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[1] gemini://idiomdrottning.org/generations
[2]
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/orphans-of-netscape.txt
[3] gemini://arcanesciences.com/gemlog/23-01-13/ 
[4] gopher://gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2023/20230113 
[2b] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/undo/archive/t001 

Orphans  of Netscape authored by solderpunk  mentions failed rocket launches  as
context for the optimism around space exploration.  Towards the end of his life,
Nobel physicist  Richard Feynman was deeply involved in studying  and explaining
The Challenger Disaster. 

An  almost universally  conserved  biographical  feature amoung physicists  like
Feynman  was that in his youth, he repaired  broken radios for his pocket money.
After successfully  juicing up his radio receiver, he enthusiastically  listened
to  Italian  language  broadcasts  that only his powered  up radio  could  catch
despite   not  knowing   word  one of Italian,   and  this  was  a  foundational
autobiographical anecdote for him. 

Listeners  to aNONradio  know that 0600UTC is the Audio Theater  slot, featuring
exciting historical radio plays Brought To You by Camel Cigarettes  - Trust Your
T-zone To Tell You If Camel Cigarettes Are Right For You. 

Radios   in  the  radio era meant listening  to  page-turner   radio  plays  and
advertisements  for overtly evil businesses. Yet we can find in biographies that
repairing  radios is a strongly  conserved  childhood  memory amoung groups like
physicists. Another note in Feynman's autobiography was that he was very typical
of  his undergraduate  classmates  at university  (such as having  been a  radio
repair-er), not standing out as he later did. 

The smallnet  or outernet  is modern radio repair.   Like Feynman  managing   to
capture a far away radio signal and avidly listening to it, just getting to read
the  gopher,  gemini  and such fringes  of the internet  as covered   by  others
requires   at  least  a specialty  browser  to  support   those  different   but
amicable-to-tinkering protocols. 

Popular  modern corporate  social media silos are today's  cigarette  companies.
Birdsite's   dive was Camel Cigarettes  becoming  a parody  of itself   for  how
shark-jumpingly evil they were. 

Another feature of Feynman's personal history is that it was no accident that he
and  his sister became celebrated  physicists.   Their father did everything  he
could their entire lives to specifically make it happen.  It's hard to reach the
smallnet   - even to know that it's there  - without  a close,  maybe   familial
connection to it.