Three Mile Island: 30 years later
Apr. 5th, 2009 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomWhen I was young "TMI" meant Three Mile Island. Living in NJ, there were weeks (months?) of headlines with the acronym "TMI". It took me years to see "TMI" as "Too Much Information".
While I'm critical of Bob Cringely's rumor columns, his article about TMI's accident are quite interesting. I think that at the time the public was not computer literate enough to understand what really happened. However now it all seems to obvious:
http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/three-mile-island-memories/
While I'm critical of Bob Cringely's rumor columns, his article about TMI's accident are quite interesting. I think that at the time the public was not computer literate enough to understand what really happened. However now it all seems to obvious:
http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/three-mile-island-memories/
