i can remember reading the following quote from nick denton’s e.mail from the valley in someone’s blog, but i can’t remember who said it first:
“One of San Francisco’s leading web designers had been reading The Victorian Internet, a history of the telegraph. “The heyday of the telegrapher as a highly paid, highly skilled information worker was over; telegraphers’ brief tenure as members of an elite community with mastery over a miraculous, cutting-edge technology had come to an end. As the twentieth century dawned, the telegraph’s inventors had died, its community had crumbled, and its golden age had ended.” As he commented, boy, that sounds familiar.”
for the first time in a long time google isn’t any help. hmmmm.
update:tara from research buzz quickly solved the mystery by pointing out that jason was the likely originator.