That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook (and many other "projects") were first launched. Pun aside, what I mean to convey is that experimentation is a vital aspect for innovation and hackership.
Yes, remind me of an old quote.
They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein... but they also laughed at Bobo the clown.
Just because someone asks why is not positive thing.
> That's what people wondered when Twitter and Facebook were first launched.
And some people still do.
("Get off my lawn" is cool, right?)
Where's the pun in that?
The pun is in the irony. Many people still question the usefulness of Twitter and Facebook.
Maybe because it isn't useful to everybody?
Is anything (non-biologically-necessary)?
why? because an Eee PC was the only desktop box I had available at the time, and I wanted to test the portability of a program to various different systems.
Cool. I didn't mean to criticize, just wondered what the use was.
I guess the main thing that came out of it was finding out how to run NetBSD and OpenBSD in recent qemu, which is not totally obvious, they didn't work out of the box. It took a bit of searching around and asking questions!