Talk:Brian Reid (computer scientist)

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It says in the article that Brian Reid's experiment with the Usenet Cookbook was an early web publishing project. I vividly remember subscribing to this in approximately 1986, well before the World Wide Web was envisioned. It's more accurate to say that it was a distributed Internet publishing experiment. It also used troff/nroff formatting, in the style of Unix "man" pages, rather than HTML, GML, SGML or anything of that ilk. As I recall, what was novel about it was that it was a moderated group, that attempted to maintain some quality of the recipes. I think there was some sort of voting system to encourage comments on individual recipes. I think there were 3-4 or maybe 5 recipes released each week, which could be printed and inserted in a binder. Brent 01:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"He was fired in February 2004, nine days before Google's IPO," cannot be accurate, as the IPO was in late summer of '04. I see from the reference that it should be nine days before the announcement of teh IPO. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.123.180.213 (talk) 20:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete?

Over on "Google to employees: don't get old if you want to keep your job", I see in the first comment a long list of accomplishments which don't seem to all be included. --Gwern (contribs) 20:06 8 October 2007 (GMT)

Linked site is currently 404. 121.45.185.9 (talk) 02:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

@ sign

I removed the claim "Reid was on the committee that developed the e-mail protocol and it was his suggestion that led to the adoption of the '@' symbol in the standard e-mail address format." This has been begging for a cite for 7 months. The use of the @-sign in email addresses is generally attributed to Ray Tomlinson; see [1], [2]. TJRC (talk) 22:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Too old to matter

The Wikipedia article says that Urs said that Reed was "too old to matter", and it cites a sfgate article as the source. But, the source material says that Urs said that Reed's *IDEAS* we obsolete and "too old to matter". Urs was talking about Reed's ideas as being too old, and not Reed himself. According to the source material. I work at Google, so I am not willing to make the change myself. Branciforte3241 (talk) 19:29, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch. I've corrected that. It would have been okay for you to have just gone in and made the change, by the way. It seems uncontroversial to bring the article in line with the source. TJRC (talk) 22:21, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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