{"id":174,"date":"2001-12-13T00:02:55","date_gmt":"2001-12-13T00:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2001-12-13T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2001-12-13T00:02:55","slug":"20011213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2001\/12\/13\/20011213\/","title":{"rendered":"2001\/12\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/discuss.fogcreek.com\/joelonsoftware\/default.asp?cmd=show&amp;ixPost=1717\"><STRONG>Michael asks:<\/STRONG><\/A><STRONG> <\/STRONG>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in anyone&#8217;s ideas on either good or bad interface issues that they&#8217;ve seen while buying things. Remember that I&#8217;m selling software, so order tracking and fulfillment don&#8217;t really exist&#8230;&#8221;<\/P> <P>I have <A href=\"http:\/\/discuss.fogcreek.com\/techinterview\/default.asp?cmd=show&amp;ixPost=153\">really smart readers<\/A>. Wow.<\/P> <P>Google now has 20 years of Usenet online. You can entertain yourself with some scary stuff from my past.<\/P> <UL> <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=spolsky%40eniac.seas.upenn.edu&amp;start=10&amp;hl=en&amp;scoring=d&amp;rnum=18&amp;selm=3944%40super.upenn.edu\">my first post<\/A> &#8212; this was rather a difficult trick because Penn didn&#8217;t officially allow undergrads to post to Usenet in those days (so I transferred out!) (April 1988)  <LI>my first <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=spolsky%40eniac.seas.upenn.edu&amp;hl=en&amp;scoring=d&amp;rnum=10&amp;selm=1895%40ima.ISC.COM\">Internet lecture<\/A> &#8212; more than a decade before Joel on Software I had things to say. Not very interesting things though. (August 1988)  <LI>my first <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=spolsky%40yale.edu&amp;hl=en&amp;rnum=2&amp;selm=38112%40yale-celray.yale.UUCP\">contribution<\/A> to Open Source (September 1988)  <LI>my first <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=spolsky%40yale.edu+emacs&amp;hl=en&amp;rnum=9&amp;selm=42453%40yale-celray.yale.UUCP\">software<\/A> released under GPL (November 1988) &#8212; now the Slashdot kiddies have to shut up; I was writing GPLed software before they were born, bwa ha ha!  <LI>I was writing <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=joelsp%40microsoft.com&amp;hl=en&amp;rnum=3&amp;selm=1993Aug15.170703.26998%40microsoft.com\">Macintosh<\/A> code way back then, too. (August 1993)  <LI>First post from <A href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=spolsky%40panix.com&amp;start=130&amp;hl=en&amp;scoring=d&amp;rnum=136&amp;selm=35shfb%24io3%40panix3.panix.com\">New York<\/A>&nbsp;(September 1994)<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael asks: &#8220;I&#8217;m interested in anyone&#8217;s ideas on either good or bad interface issues that they&#8217;ve seen while buying things. 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