BBQ Cambridge 2017 - post 5 - and a bit of a retrospective

Thanks to all the sponsors of this BBQ who have made this so awesome.

This is also post 100 in this blog - looking  back, 90 or so of the 100 have been from Cambridge which just goes to show how much of the world revolves around a radius of about five miles from here

Likewise, there are folk in the room whom I've known for 20 years even if I'm dreadful with remembering  stuff. There's also scope for remembering absent friends who have got us this far and are no longer with us, for whatever reason.

I've just handed over some CDs and DVDs which, if readable, have a collective memory back to Debian 0.93 in about 1994 - even if not readable, they're a document of how far we've come from boot floppies to VMs, Bu-Ray size images and architectures undreamt of all those years ago.