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I did a phone interview with Christopher Poole of 4chan fame (moot) when I was a fairly mid-level engineer. This was for his startup, Canvas. One of the interview questions was to explain every detail of what happens after entering an address into your browser and hitting "go". I completely stumbled through my response and was humbled on that phone call. He was polite, but at the same time made me feel like an absolute idiot.


Wait. Did moot start Canvas, the educational platform that many, many, many universities use? That Canvas?

That's absolutely hilarious to me. I did not know that.


no this was different, it went defunct 10 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_Networks


Oooooh okay. That makes way more sense. Thank you.




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