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Previously on "The internet"

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  • BrowneIssue
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Apparently not (yet):

    t++>$


    I'm not worthy.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
    Sold an Enterprise? Kewl!
    Apparently not (yet):

    t++>$

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    GIT/MU/PA d- s:- a C$ ULHC++++(on)$ P L++++$ !E--- W+++$ !N- !o !K-- !w--- !O !M-- !V PS+? PE+? Y$ !PGP t++>$ !5 X++@ R+ tv-? b+++$ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h++ r++ y+
    !M-- seems a bit old-fashioned or out of touch, given that OS X is Unix-based. Your ULHC++++(on)$ would seem to suggest that you would enjoy using a modern Mac as much as I do.

    Still, each to their own

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  • BrowneIssue
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    GIT/MU/PA d- s:- a C$ ULHC++++(on)$ P L++++$ !E--- W+++$ !N- !o !K-- !w--- !O !M-- !V PS+? PE+? Y$ !PGP t++>$ !5 X++@ R+ tv-? b+++$ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h++ r++ y+
    Originally posted by Platypus View Post
    Is that a UUCP protocol exchange?


    I haven't seen a [edited out for annoyance value] for years! Cliphead, you didn't wrap it in the standard delimiters, nor include the version. Anyway,

    You are an IT specialist, yet reckon you're also as good at music and acting: a very unusual mix of 3 geeknesses. You dress casually: no chest on which to wear a T-shirt and shorts are big enough for your legs. Born in the 1970s, you are making money as an IT professional, in particular as a Unix sysadmin for web stuff on a variety of platforms and Linux pays for your bacon butties. I am surprised at your Usenet views, and you made far less use of the Oracle than I did! I agree about Kibo but feel even more strongly about Bill Gates. OS/2 & Macs, yeah, whatever, but VMS, really? I think we all agree politically (except for Cyberman, of course). The Cypherpunks and encryption: haven't we all moved on? Sold an Enterprise? Kewl! Where were you when Susan Ivanova was melting my heart? Although Gillian Anderson does nothing for me. I prefer C&S to D+D. not ( tv ) for me; surely we all prefer books, and Dilbert. I still play Doom; it is so much easier with the sound on! You need a life and I'm surprised at your level of education - are you not a Brit? There's no broadband option, is there? Not married yet? Did anyone ever say they were a virgin, unless they lied about their gender?
    Last edited by BrowneIssue; 9 May 2009, 22:09. Reason: Damd orful spellin.

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    GIT/MU/PA d- s:- a C$ ULHC++++(on)$ P L++++$ !E--- W+++$ !N- !o !K-- !w--- !O !M-- !V PS+? PE+? Y$ !PGP t++>$ !5 X++@ R+ tv-? b+++$ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h++ r++ y+
    Is that a UUCP protocol exchange?

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  • Cliphead
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    GIT/MU/PA d- s:- a C$ ULHC++++(on)$ P L++++$ !E--- W+++$ !N- !o !K-- !w--- !O !M-- !V PS+? PE+? Y$ !PGP t++>$ !5 X++@ R+ tv-? b+++$ DI+++ D++ G++ e+ h++ r++ y+

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  • Xenophon
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    Originally posted by realityhack View Post
    IRC for me, long before the days of't'interweb, I was to be found on Ircnet or Efnet, chatting about all sorts of nonsense. Not like today. Oh, wait...
    realityhack is awarded +1 Xeno Geek Point.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    You're right: AOL was like an inflow of fresh mud. Yes I am being snobby: sometimes it's true.
    WHS. Usenet started going to pot on the same day.

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  • BrowneIssue
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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    You're right: AOL was like an inflow of fresh mud. Yes I am being snobby: sometimes it's true.
    Me too!

    1 4!V! 50 l33t!

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    It's all been downhill since gopher and ftp.

    And then when AOL got linked up, OMG!
    You're right: AOL was like an inflow of fresh mud. Yes I am being snobby: sometimes it's true.

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by BrowneIssue View Post
    Huh?

    20th anniversary for the second time, perhaps.

    Do you mean that subset of the Internet, the World Wide Web?
    WHS (although I'd refer to the web as an Internet application, given that it exists at the application layer of the OSI model)

    I never used to bother with the web when I first had Internet access whilst working on a gig at a university research institute in the early 90s. Usenet and FTP FTW!

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by ace00 View Post
    With it being the 20th anniversary of the internet, my impending flu fatality, and the pointless conf call I'm on right now, let us harken back to those early days.............................................. .................................................. .
    ...................
    Who remembers Mosaic? When exciting graphics meant ASCII pics :-) ? When all you could access was university thesisi? What was the first thing you got excited about on the internet (if it is porn you are too young to answer)?
    It's all been downhill since gopher and ftp.

    And then when AOL got linked up, OMG!

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  • realityhack
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    Me with nunchucks:


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    ..).\/_)=\.../
    ..(_(_.)_



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  • voodooflux
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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    I remember blagging myself a JANET account at Univesity and using it to post drivel on various bulletin boards. Then came IRC and UseNet which I used to post drivel on various channels. Dial up access , Ascii Art, Mosaic, then Netscape back when Lycos was the best search engine around. Geocities, Angelfire and Tripod hosted web pages, Blink tags, Marquee text on the status bar, more drivel on more bulletin boards and appalling page layouts and design.
    Much the same here, JANET at Uni (popular lass that Janet) then on to Archie and IRC, then Compuserve before a Demon Internet dial-up. Usenet, AltaVista, Kali, QuakeWorld, GeoCities...the rest is history.
    Last edited by voodooflux; 8 May 2009, 15:28.

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  • Drewster
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
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    HTH

    Bravo Brillo!!!

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