@scanlime

One could possibly be forgiven for assuming that #FOSS couldn't have really taken off until the #Internet reached a certain critical mass, and that it had only done so in the final decade of the 20th century. Bit of a stretch… Whatever. 🤷

But wow, they actually said that #NASA started in the late #90s? Literally the most famous thing NASA ever did (not to mention the most watched live TV broadcast in history) was the #Apollo11 moon landing on July 20th, 1969 — a date etched on the timeline of major historic events, right between D-Day (June 6th, 1944) and September 11th, 2001.

I wasn't at #fosdem, but by any chance were the keynote speakers you mentioned perhaps just super-young, or maybe from a #NonWestern culture, where the specific details (like names and dates) of western-centric historic events aren't emphasized in schools? 🤔

On the other hand, maybe they're just typical rich, entitled #TechBros, and #ChatGPT wrote their keynotes for them. 🤣 #SeemsLegit

#introduction
I am a #litstudies scholar with expertise in #Ottoman and #Turkish #literatures. My previous research tackled representations of Ottoman #masculinities in early twentieth-century erotic #fiction, local forms of knowledge production, and memory-making practices. Currently, I work on #literary #gerontology in #nonWestern contexts.