Clarke, Devoret and Martinis win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

[hunter]

5. I remember Google opened a huge archive of old USENET posts...

... much to the horror of those who had posted them, including myself.

Some of my early DU posts are pretty embarrassing too.

My Electricity & Magnetism professor was the nicest guy in the world, an excellent teacher, was cheerful and welcoming in his office hours, eager to help students who were having problems, but damn, he wrote the most difficult exams I've ever taken.

Straight A students who had made it that far by rote memorization and diligent study crashed and burned. If you didn't know the physics almost intuitively, in your guts, if you weren't willing to spend time in labs learning the stuff with your own hands, you were doomed to at best, a "C."