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One for the Old School geeks
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Cybrludite
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One for the Old School geeks
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"If it ain't the Devil's Music, you ain't doin' it right." - Chris Thomas King
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"When liberal democracies collapse, someone comes along who promises to make the trains run on time if we load the right people into them." - Tam K.
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randy
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
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Greg
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
In a couple of years nobody is going to believe us when we tell stories of faxes and modems and dialup speeds. And when we talk about slip and ppp they'll put us in homes. 
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
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If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
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BobbyK
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
How about good old UUCP?
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Greg
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
Like BITNET, that's something I've seen, I know what it is, but am glad I never had to deal with it directly.BobbyK wrote:How about good old UUCP?
I suspect we can borrow from Carlin and lump any technologies and technologists from before our time into 'old and crusty' and from after our time into 'spoiled young whippersnappers'.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
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PawPaw
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
Hell, the last "under the hood" technology I mastered was tip-and-ring. You young whippersnappers.
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Denis
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
LOL.PawPaw wrote:Hell, the last "under the hood" technology I mastered was tip-and-ring. You young whippersnappers.
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Aesop
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
To show the age of that humor, the first question would be "Who the hell is Cameron Diaz?"
And where, once again, the answer "ancient technology" would suffice to explain.
And where, once again, the answer "ancient technology" would suffice to explain.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Windy Wilson
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
When I first worked at Big Aerospace Company, they had us using a fax machine that had a chamber with a rotating cylinder. You put the sheet of paper in and this sensor would gradually track from one end of the cylinder to the other, reading or printing the image on the paper. Sort of like an Edison phonograph with the wax cylinders. And this was in 1983!
As a coworker said once, "We just make high-tech stuff -- we don't use it."
As a coworker said once, "We just make high-tech stuff -- we don't use it."
The use of the word "but" usually indicates that everything preceding it in a sentence is a lie.
E.g.:
"I believe in Freedom of Speech, but". . .
"I support the Second Amendment, but". . .
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E.g.:
"I believe in Freedom of Speech, but". . .
"I support the Second Amendment, but". . .
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Aesop
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Re: One for the Old School geeks
Niiiiiiice.
That technology was showcased as cutting-edge in Bullitt, which premiered in 1968.
That technology was showcased as cutting-edge in Bullitt, which premiered in 1968.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"