Look, I’m all for someone being excited for something they’ve never explored before. There is a joy in personal discovery of things you see.

I’m not a fan of a fabricated premise in order to show “look how brilliant I am, I discovered RDS from first principles” when this mostly documented (1).

In contrast, look at the Mike Harrison Eidophor talk. The guy pieced together a history of a significant technology that is otherwise poorly recorded on the Internet (2). This is new and novel info.

(1) https://www.2wcom.com/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/Company/...

(2) https://hackaday.com/2016/04/19/mike-harrison-exposes-hot-oi...