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[Red Green]

Phisherman wrote in news: [e-mail]:

You're talking pre-Mosaic? ...since Mosaic was considered a graphical web browser (circa 1993).

[Phisherman]

Lynx, circa 1992, free.

[aemeijers]

RN, came with the UNIX distro on the minicomputer that fed the office network, 1986 or so. Back then, many UNIX systems had a newsfeed, because it was small enough volume that the bandwidth got lost in the noise, and management was never aware of it. I dialed in from home on a green-screen suitcase 8086 with a blazing 1200 baud modem and a vt100 emulator package. A much more innocent time...

-- aem sends, feeling very old again....

[Red Green]

aemeijers wrote in news:2uqdnQuOIPYDUlrXnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

I paid big bucks for one of those once :-)

[Sanity]

I bought a Zyxel 2400 baud modem years ago (days of the sysops). Price was over $900 but if you were a sysop of a BBS you paid slightly under $400.

[J O E]

I guess there are just so many ways to fix a dripping faucet, and they have all been discussed here over and over, ad nauseum.

Many years ago, decades really, magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics were enjoying good sales because of their on topic content, and were good sources of how to do just about everything from wiring a 3-way switch to repairing a washing machine.

But, as those kinds of articles began appearing less and less, their having been already covered (once is enough) as do they in this group, those magazines lost readership because of their content.

An article on the space shuttle program is certainly interesting, informative and educational, but doesn't belong on the pages of Popular Mechanics.

Just an opinion, analogous to what's happening here.

Joe

P.S. Some of you who have flamed me will probably have to look up the meaning of analogous.

[Meanie]

I prefer cunninglingus, er, wait, is that something similar?

[krw]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out.

[Home Guy]

Spoken with the benefit of much experience.