# Mr. Rheingold, thank you for reposting all of these.

As an afficianado of computer history, I’m frequently surprised at how little
things change, and how often history repeats itself. The…

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Mr. Rheingold, thank you for reposting all of these.

As an afficianado of computer history, I’m frequently surprised at how little
things change, and how often history repeats itself. The field has an amazing
institutional forgetfulness; people today are still trying to attack problems
that were solved properly by NLS and Xanadu fifty years ago. Ignorance of the
history of computer-mediated communication is all too common even among people
who are focusing on it, and so we keep making the same mistakes.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [October 25,
2016](https://medium.com/p/ed5de6b10694).

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reposting-all-of-these-ed5de6b10694)

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