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The KPAX site (http://homepage.mac.com/svc/kpax/index.html) mentions this screencast (which is from 2005 BTW):

KPAX was featured in the controversial Lisp Movie ...[snip]

Anyone know why this is/was controversial?

I think it was controversial on the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup, with threads saying "It may be Reddit-ish but it lacks most of the features like a proper data store".

[Edit] Of course, I was reading that newsgroup at the time, so this isn't a 'I think' but a 'I know'.

Nowadays you can have the data store in 5 more minutes.

You're correct, that was the gist of it.

The main reason for building that mini reddit clone was that the Reddit developers had just switched to Python and to use something different than a mini blog platform for a screencast.

And of course back then there was no Twitter to make 'exciting' little examples to show of frameworks or libraries ;-)

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