I have fond memories of following the messy developments on Groklaw.

That blog instilled me with hope that we'd see more and more amazing works from all sorts of experts on the web, distilling speciallized topics that would otherwise be pretty incomprehensible (or worse: shallowly editorialized) into thrilling but educational content.

Alas, I've never found another site that so consistently and deeply explained its subject matter from an expert perpective in language non-experts could follow. If you have examples of such content, I'd be very interested in pointers to them.

Reminds me that I haven't been to Slashdot in a long time. Darl McBride was the bête noire of the moment ~ 21 years ago.

Those were the days. Microsoft made a fortune out of this.