An early icon of the blogosphere, Steven DenBeste has passed away.
for those who arrived here later in the game, here’s a taste.
An early icon of the blogosphere, Steven DenBeste has passed away.
for those who arrived here later in the game, here’s a taste.
The comments there reflect my own Internet history.
R.I.P.
One of the first and one of the best.
When I first joined the internet, DenBeste’s USSClueless was my home site even though I wasn’t blogging at the time.(USSClueless didn’t allow comments and DenBeste never liked answering anyhoo)
I loved you Steven. You taught me so much and you were an unassailable point of sanity early on in the GW fight stating that Turbine farms/Solar farms/Biomass collection were BS.
I will miss you greatly.
Mine as well andyc, SdB IS internet history, and I was on this thing before they called it the internet.
Steven made sense in a world rapidly changing into the web based culture we have now. His influence is all through the net, writers and bloggers we all quote and read were inspired by Steven. We owe a debt to him for being a voice of reason and logic in a maelstrom, his rigorous application of engineering principles to complex problems helped us to understand the monumental changes we have seen.
And it cost him his good health. A heavy price to pay.
To his family I say, know that your sense of loss and mourning is shared by many many people all over the world.
USS Clueless was the first blog I also followed: and he led me to Bill Whittle at Eject! Eject! Eject!, Bill’s first(?) blog.
DenBeste seemed to be an expert in everything…engineering…history…military…politics…anti-terrorism rants (I cut and pasted some of his best…still have them, and still refer to them from time to time!
I was deepely saddened when he ‘decommissioned’ USS Clueless to focus on anime.
His influence will be missed.
Excuse me while I go read some of those archived blog posts.
Amen to that.