Correlation: Woodworkers and Computer Vets

Gotta admit that I don't miss Archie, Veronica , Kermit, and the gang... or having to "dial in." ;~)

John

How many of you were on ARPAnet or MILnet?

Who remembers when Usenet was transported primarily by having one news server place a phone call to another?

I was a First Class hub for OneNet.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:28:35 -0400, the infamous "John Grossbohlin" scrawled the following:

THAT will quickly pare the number down.

I was using RIME BBSes before the WWW, but that drew me to the Internet.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:50:51 GMT, the infamous snipped-for-privacy@triton.net scrawled the following:

ME! What do I win?

Born dain bramaged 1953, and still having fun.

Raises hand. I got and sent e-mail that way for nearly 4 years.

Who remembers the significance of 'ihnp4', or 'cbosgd'?

Who remembers 'bangpath' email addressing?

You old fart, I was born in '60. :)

basilisk

Ah, yer an old codger; I wasn't born til 59.

/after moving 10 tons of rock today, I don't feel young. Even using the tractors, there's still a lot of hand work in it.

snipped-for-privacy@triton.net wrote in news:71c6c$4bc74b5f$d1ac0dbb$ snipped-for-privacy@allthenewsgroups.com:

Wow, I had no idea I was dealing with such old people. I'm just a baby compared to most of you. I'm less than half of 60.

Puckdropper

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:12:57 GMT, the infamous basilisk scrawled the following:

Smart-mouthed young punk. I oughta turn you over my knee... ;) Nah, we're both 2nd Halfers.

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:06:27 -0500, the infamous snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) scrawled the following:

VAGUELY. I remember having to ask what the exclamation point was for way, way back.

Think of yourself as a prodigy.

(No, not Prodigy. That experiment sucked real bad!)

It is anything like "return comma splat" (return, *).

(old CDC Cyber 172 lingo, I think).

Bill

----------------------------- You and my grandkids..................

BTW, age is a state of mind and hopefully an indication of accumulated knowledge.

Lew

Internet, RIME and Relay Net... and then Mosaic. Of course there wasn't much to browse at that point. ;~)

John

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:07:53 -0700, the infamous Mark & Juanita scrawled the following:

I lifted about 100 lbs of weeds out of a lady's yard yesterday, one by one through the stones in her yard. My finners are toast. She's 1 of only 2 landscaping clients I have right now. I don't mind weeding or mowing occasionally for $30/hr. I have a welded wire fence to put in today, and I'm not looking forward to that at all. T-post setting and wire lifting aren't fun. Maybe I'll finish the cedar & PT fence today instead...

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:4bc963a5$0$15656 $ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

Hey, do humans have a maximum memory limit? What happens when we get full?

Puckdropper

Oh so rare

I forget ...