Introduction

Speaker 1
It's the equivalent, in my mind anyways, of like, if you've got a whole bunch of people living in a house or like an apartment building, and it's on the edge of an eroding cliff, and you, the work that's underway is moving that entire apartment complex to a better place, replacing the foundation, replacing the plumbing, because it's all like lead pipes, replacing all the electrical, because it's an obitube, and doing it while people are still living in
Speaker 4
the building and
Speaker 3
they
Speaker 4
don't even really know what's happening.
Speaker 2
Hello Thunderbird family, and welcome to episode two of The Thundercast. Before we jump into the show, I just wanted to thank everybody out there for all of your largely very positive feedback about the first episode and the format, and we really appreciate your support there. So thank you so much for listening, and thank you for sharing it, and thank you for all of your encouragement. This episode is a special one, because it marks our first special guest. This time we are joined by Mike Conley, Principal Software Engineer at Mozilla. Do I have that right?
Speaker 1
That is correct.
Speaker 2
And of course Ryan Sypes. Good to have for the second episode. Alex could not be with us tonight, but that is because he is doing excellent work polishing up Supernova, Thunderbird 115 tonight, so we had to grudgingly let him keep working tonight. So Mike, before you tell us what you do for Mozilla with Firefox, I wanted to hear your origin story. If you have one, if you remember it, like your tech origin story, or what made you fall in love with computers, or made you fall in love with technology? Yeah, I can do that. That's a
Speaker 1
great question. So I grew up in the 90s. I was born in the late 80s, but I grew up in the 90s, and my parents got us a computer when I was a kid. I think my mom worked in an office, and they were throwing out a bunch of old computers, and she was like, oh, I'll snag this one, and she brought it home. And so I had this old computer running DOS, MS DOS. There was no hard drive.

ThunderCast #2: Mozilla's Mike Conley & The Retro Internet Retreat

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