I think it (weirdly) especially hits a strange place with the “forgotten” mark, in that pieces of it keep getting rediscovered (sometimes multiple times).
I got to work w/ some of the Plan 9 folks, and they would point out (with citations) when highly regarded papers in OSDI had been built (and published) in Plan 9, sometimes 10-20 years prior.
One form of this “forgotten” tech is tech that we keep forgetting and rediscovering, but:
maybe this isn’t the type of forget the original question is about, and
possibly academia itself is incentivizing this (since instead of only getting one paper out of a good idea, if it can get re-used, then that’s good for grad students / labs that need publications)
+1 Plan 9.
I think it (weirdly) especially hits a strange place with the “forgotten” mark, in that pieces of it keep getting rediscovered (sometimes multiple times).
I got to work w/ some of the Plan 9 folks, and they would point out (with citations) when highly regarded papers in OSDI had been built (and published) in Plan 9, sometimes 10-20 years prior.
One form of this “forgotten” tech is tech that we keep forgetting and rediscovering, but:
maybe this isn’t the type of forget the original question is about, and
possibly academia itself is incentivizing this (since instead of only getting one paper out of a good idea, if it can get re-used, then that’s good for grad students / labs that need publications)