Comment on Custom Colors of HNparentComments−InclinedPlane12yI thought this was a reference to the backbone cabal of the '80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal−timv12yYes, but indirectly.It was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal)I was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the one that stays in my mind.
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I thought this was a reference to the backbone cabal of the '80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal
Yes, but indirectly.
It was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal)
I was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the one that stays in my mind.