On: The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Am I dating myself by thinking of this when I read the article title?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West

[brudgers → HeyLaughingBoy]

Curious if you found the article interesting anyway.

[HeyLaughingBoy → brudgers]

Lost interest after the first few paragraphs.

[NikolaeVarius → HeyLaughingBoy]

I wanted to read about tanks or life vests

[xwdv → HeyLaughingBoy]

I personally have no idea what this article is really talking about or what the significance of it is that would cause it to be up voted so highly. Baffled.

[njharman → xwdv]

HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.

[xwdv → njharman]

But why? What is the connection?

[dghlsakjg → xwdv]

The post is about a person named Mae West. The wikipedia article linked is about a infrastructure exchange point with the same name

[xwdv → dghlsakjg]

I’m talking about the original article. The person. Why?

[labster → xwdv]

I learned something from reading this article. Plus Mae West was a hacker of a sort: she interpreted censorship as damage and routed around it. Obviously not as much of a hacker as Hedy Lamarr, but still she led an interesting life.