{"id":28445,"date":"2020-03-24T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28445"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T20:35:43","slug":"fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patrickcollison.com\/fast\">Patrick Collison<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=21848860\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/patrickcollison.com\/fast\">\n<p>Dee Hock was given 90 days to launch the BankAmericard card (which became the Visa card), starting from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Walt Disney&rsquo;s conception of &ldquo;The Happiest Place on Earth&rdquo; was brought to life in 366 days.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995. It shipped in beta in September of that year.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Work on the Xerox Alto, the first GUI-oriented computer, started in November 1972 because of a bet: &ldquo;Chuck said that a futuristic computer could be done &lsquo;in three months&rsquo; and a Xerox exec bet him a case of wine that it couldn&rsquo;t be done&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Tony Fadell was hired to create the iPod in late January 2001 [&#8230;] and shipped the first production iPod to customers in November 2001, around 290 days after getting started.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Linus Torvalds started working on Git on April 3 2005. It was self-hosting 4 days later. On April 20 2005, 17 days after work commenced, Linux 2.6.12-rc3 was publicly released with Git.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>But modern physical infrastructure projects take longer.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/01\/ipod-history-and-itunes-for-windows\/\">iPod History and iTunes for Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"fast-update-2020-03-27\">Update (2020-03-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickc\/status\/1216477318434050048\">Patrick Collison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickc\/status\/1216477318434050048\">\n<p>I asked Tony Fadell about the iPod timeline for my fast project page. Summary: &#x1F62F;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Collison (Hacker News): Dee Hock was given 90 days to launch the BankAmericard card (which became the Visa card), starting from scratch. [&#8230;] Walt Disney&rsquo;s conception of &ldquo;The Happiest Place on Earth&rdquo; was brought to life in 366 days. [&#8230;] Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995. 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