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by mikeash 4415 days ago
Crappy sites that don't do more than store a grocery shopping list haven't been in continuous operation for five decades.
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Given that the web is only really 35 years old, that's a truism.
Nothing says that legacy systems which are on the internet today can't have started out well before the internet. The legacy system that JetBlue is dealing with in this case has, in fact, been in continuous operation for over five decades.