could someone explain to me why, every time I log into this site, the comment I just entered is forgotten, forcing me to re-type it entirely?
If I'm not mistaken, the time frame evoked is around the time Bill Gates was stealing CPU time from Harvard's mainframe, to program said BASIC, for an amount of more than $4000 (which was, at the time, a sizable sum). He was actually arrested, charged and kicked out of Harvard (he didn't actually drop out).
exacting taskmaster with a business sense or a greedy thief, one may wonder - probably a bit of both.