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Mentions personal use of CompuServe.

26 Nov 2023 Lenny's Podcast Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

“CompuServe, I used CompuServe. I didn't know that. That's amazing.”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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26 Nov 2023
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah. So before all of this, I worked at a company called CompuServe when I was in high school. CompuServe, I used CompuServe. I didn't know that. That's amazing. There was a guy on the team named Steve Wilhite who invented Graphics Interchange Format, GIF, and he was a straight out of central casting, 1960s neck beard programmer type, and the first I had ever encountered and very prickly. And it's crazy, but at the time, Steve would take all comers in the fight that it was pronounced jiff. Now he's obviously wrong. It's obviously pronounced giff. It's crazy to me now 35 years later, this is still a topic that pops up on the internet every once in a while. It's somehow like Zelig, I cross paths with the guy who created Graphics Interchange Format and I know his opinion on the topic even though it's an unpopular one.…

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