I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer. I have to agree with you, having this proximity and immediacy through things like Twitter, Stack Overflow and services like HN is quite exciting. Just a few years ago this would have been almost unheard of (exceptions always prove the rule).
A few years ago (eek a decade) when a lot of the tech community hung out on slashdot and I remember seeing this same thing happen. We are social creatures and before tweeting (I know shocking) there was other ways and there will be new ways when no one tweets anymore.
Back in the day they had a finger up on some random id Software server. They were just as present back then as they are now, it's just that the people without knowledge of usenet and Unix can interact with them :)
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I pinged John on Twitter with a link to elicit an answer. I have to agree with you, having this proximity and immediacy through things like Twitter, Stack Overflow and services like HN is quite exciting. Just a few years ago this would have been almost unheard of (exceptions always prove the rule).
A few years ago (eek a decade) when a lot of the tech community hung out on slashdot and I remember seeing this same thing happen. We are social creatures and before tweeting (I know shocking) there was other ways and there will be new ways when no one tweets anymore.
Back in the day they had a finger up on some random id Software server. They were just as present back then as they are now, it's just that the people without knowledge of usenet and Unix can interact with them :)