Straight from the PO’s mouth ten years ago - the mushroom business was flying,” absolutely flying at the moment.”
Stalker was aware that a large European company had recently shown some interest in the Irish Mushroom Industry, sending readers to The company website www.viscongroup.eu for a gander.
Also Stalker was mixing up the CIA and the Culinary Institute of America. “Earless and eyeless” Stalker’s imagination was caught by the Sylvia Plath poem “Mushrooms” - it remains very evocative, as well as presaging Ecovative manufacturing. Remarking on oil prices of that time - the then crisis in Ukraine was mentioned - interesting it is to reflect on how long that region has been in flux.
Also apparently the internet kind of broke on Tuesday the 12th of August 2014. Something to do with one of the larger ISPs trying to add more IP addresses.
As a top computer scientist at Oxford University said at the time: "The Internet - you have no idea. It's held together with chewing gum and string. If everyone said, we don't need the internet for a year, let's shut it down , we could make it so much better. But we can't do that."
