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  • From: Neal <webdeveloper02 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Linux, AOL/TimeWarner, and the future of computing
  • Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:51:41 -0800 (PST)


Sounds like a script to a "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" skit. ( e.g.
http://www.deadtroll.com/ )

- Neal 'Welcome to the Internet Helpdesk'

--- "K. Jo Garner" <kelly AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Steven Champeon wrote:
> ->Well, for some of us, the "early days" were in '94 :)
>
> Oh, web design, yeah, that's LUXURY, innit.
>
> No Pretty Pictures - No Far Flung Links - No Song and Dance - Just text,
> the old-fashioned way, like the internet used to be in the old days blah
> blah blah...., we had to use VT100's and remember UNIX commands and
> everything ran at 2400 baud, if we were lucky!
>
> Lux'ry.
>
> We had a Decwriter, running at 27 baud with out any ink in it. We had to
> prick our fingers to drain enough blood to use for ink, remember 7
> different AT commands to dial up to a TOPS-20 machine and then, we got to
> run FINGER and TELNET, if we were lucky! Lux'ry! We had to drive over to
> MIT, pick the locks to the AI lab, steal the manuals to the old PDP-1,
> then log-in with the console keypad in octal, and all we could do was see
> how many users were logged on, if we were lucky! Ah, you tell that to the
> youth of today and they just don't believe you. Aye. Aye. Aye.
>
> from http://www.sover.net/~josefs/, long since dead and abandoned
>
>
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> you are not religious then hug a tree or something." - Yoko Ono
> http://www.ibiblio.org/kelly/ -=*=- kelly \@/ unc.edu
>
>
>
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