Hacker News with Generative AI: David Bowie

Remembering the ISP That David Bowie Ran for Eight Years (hackaday.com)
The seeds of the Internet were first sown in the late 1960s, with computers laced together in continent-spanning networks to aid in national defence. However, it was in the late 1990s that the end-user explosion took place, as everyday people flocked online in droves.
Remembering the ISP that David Bowie ran for 8 years (hackaday.com)
The seeds of the Internet were first sown in the late 1960s, with computers laced together in continent-spanning networks to aid in national defence. However, it was in the late 1990s that the end-user explosion took place, as everyday people flocked online in droves.
Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 (cybercultural.com)
Online music retail was thriving by 1996, thanks to sites like Music Boulevard and CDnow. But music downloads and streaming was more of a challenge — as David Bowie discovered in September 1996.