It's interesting the way old problems come back around. The master/slave terminology was a controversial thing people argued about when I started with Usenet in the early nineties. It's a pity those old Usenet postings aren't easier to search and reference.
More recently, the comments on this 2003 Slashdot story echo what's had been written here today pretty closely, just replace "woke" with "politically correct". [1] A quick scan makes it seem like there is a master/slave drinking game to be had, involving finding the same comment in that comment section and this one.
I assume the argument about master/slave terminology dates back even further than my experience, but the question of how a person would conduct a controversy without NNTP or at least, for the love of God, UUCP is a mystery. Magnetic tape transported via sailing ships? Signals transferred great distances by lighting fiery beacons atop mountains? Passenger pigeons? The way people are using this extremely old argument and their peers' engagement with it to draw conclusions about where their current popular culture is going is entertaining.
More recently, the comments on this 2003 Slashdot story echo what's had been written here today pretty closely, just replace "woke" with "politically correct". [1] A quick scan makes it seem like there is a master/slave drinking game to be had, involving finding the same comment in that comment section and this one.
I assume the argument about master/slave terminology dates back even further than my experience, but the question of how a person would conduct a controversy without NNTP or at least, for the love of God, UUCP is a mystery. Magnetic tape transported via sailing ships? Signals transferred great distances by lighting fiery beacons atop mountains? Passenger pigeons? The way people are using this extremely old argument and their peers' engagement with it to draw conclusions about where their current popular culture is going is entertaining.
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/03/11/25/0014257/la-county-bans-u...