in-line git history, and add some musings from ck's patch

docs/lore/golden-years.md

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+## Musings
+
+> Stories from the times after the last of the sensible founding generation departed (raz, caz, anton) but before the LiveJournal Generation took over.
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+> It's probably fair to say that The Golden Years kept reminding everyone we were the largest non-barbecue club (i.e. had far less social focus, activities very online when no other clubs had a website let alone a chat room — unless we provided their website space) and yet, the biggest memories are that this is when things got the most social and the least technical.
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+> That's not to underplay the hard work from all the technical volunteers keeping the servers up. "We are not an ISP" but websites and accounts were into the second decade of awesome membership benefit. It was a constant tension, as was "we are also not the Linux Server On As Many Types of Hardware as Possible Society", and yet …
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+## Context
+
 > Copypasta of my own Discord posts because this is a lesson on writing drafts and/or acquiring information easily, and delegating the editing.  Those who provide content typically don't have the time to do editing, or at least to do both.
 
 > The following is concerns the "Golden Years", the 2000s.  This may or may not be concurrent with the era of Christian Kent being titled "Project Starter", but he will always admit that the club did stray from its core purpose during this time, before which and after which it could be proud of its programming-related events]
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 But probably the best times were all related to exploring the old SOCOG headquarters post-2000, then discovering the abandoned radio transmitter after playing with some locks, then when some more abseiling skills were added, the exploration continued to the roof.  The culmination was the climbing of the rusty tower, on the same night that everyone was dressed in formal gear.  It then turned into a "cantenna" wifi project but when we actually got the transmitter online, we discovered we were transmitting in a small sphere as far as the bus stop, rather than a narrow ring (a sphere slice) that would actually achieve 50 kilometres.
 
 The story gets mundane after that because it's all about custom metalwork for custom antennas, which we knew we could afford even if very few places in the world made them.  We got as far as getting a quote from New Zealand but the whole thing got stuck for the lamest of reasons — import duty.  Turns out a large chunk of aluminium attracts a large chunk of taxes.
-Shame though, because in an era of ADSL1, it would have matched that speed for 1 concurrent user.  In today's terms, it was like a gigabit per second, private data link if you could see it from your home, fixed-wireless.  The comparison only works if I say "but there's no mobile data in the world."  Bittorrent was hot then, and many folks were dreaming of their status in the scene by providing data links that many in Sydney would like.  Strictly NOT an internet link, just intranet.
+Shame though, because in an era of ADSL1, it would have matched that speed for 1 concurrent user.  In today's terms, it was like a gigabit per second, private data link if you could see it from your home, fixed-wireless.  The comparison only works if I say "but there's no mobile data in the world."  Bittorrent was hot then, and many folks were dreaming of their status in the scene by providing data links that many in Sydney would like.  Strictly NOT an internet link, just intranet.