LSD and UNIX
April 30, 2008 8:38 AM   Subscribe

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died. In my narrow world of Internet development in the '90s we enjoyed the line 'There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.' Although the article points out "The drug was popularised by (a) Harvard professor"
posted by Schroder (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: oh my god man i am having like the weirdest sense of deja vu right now and HOLY SHIT THE COLORS -- cortex



 
Still dead.
posted by fixedgear at 8:40 AM on April 30, 2008 [1 favorite]


Maybe we all just hallucinated that thread yesterday.
posted by goatdog at 8:42 AM on April 30, 2008


flashback!
posted by Uther Bentrazor at 8:42 AM on April 30, 2008 [1 favorite]


Oh hi!
posted by Perplexity at 8:42 AM on April 30, 2008


Dude.
posted by Pollomacho at 8:43 AM on April 30, 2008


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