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[CommRLock78]

Sorry, used to minimal information ideas. Yes, it is an idea. Along with the Friend-or-Foe and Crew OXP ideas I have.

Great ideas. I'll especially be looking out for Docking_Fortunes.OXP .

[CommRLock78]

Here's another from the other day:

[CommRLock78]

...hax0red???

I have to say Tricky - that is a great version of 'hacked' LMAO.

[Tricky]

...hax0red???

I have to say Tricky - that is a great version of 'hacked' LMAO.

What can I say. Spent too much time on t'interweb back in the early 90's (and ever since). Would you believe my first website went live in early part of '94? Never thought about it until now.

[CommRLock78]

What can I say. Spent too much time on t'interweb back in the early 90's (and ever since). Would you believe my first website went live in early part of '94? Never thought about it until now.

Damn, that was a while ago now . I didn't get 'online' until '96 (my first website was first published in '97 or '98, on geocities), although by '94 I had definitely started to catch the computing bug - ah, the early and mid 90's, the days of DOS (and playing with a then 15 year old computer ).

[DaddyHoggy]

I did a joint Honours in Physics and Computer Science '90-'94 - I definitely remember using "the internet" for at least part of researching my thesis (although I did a lot of scanning from books too) - but what I was searching the limited scope of what was the WWW in '94 with I cannot recall!

Pretty certain my email client was called something like "Pegasus" - which worked across Windows 3.11 and Unix (as we had both PCs and Sparcs and Alphas in computer labs (the VAX VMS terminals notwithstanding))

[Cody]

... but what I was searching the limited scope of what was the WWW in '94 with I cannot recall

I got my first home PC in '94... and I seem to remember using Magellan for searching.

[DaddyHoggy]

Looking at this page (itself ancient history - 2003): http://searchenginewatch.com/article/20 ... -Birthdays it's likely I used Yahoo and I definitely remember Webcrawler. I was certainly using Lycos when I started with the MOD in 1995 and Ask (Jeeves) was my engine of choice when I was working in the US in 1999 (Google would have only been a year old then)

[CommRLock78]

Whilst I love hearing these anecdotes from days gone by, we should keep things on topic. Perhaps we should move the last few comments to here.
However, on the topic of search engines, by '98, yahoo was my preferred engine. It's funny to look back on the way it was in those days, quite quaint, really.

[CommRLock78]

Must be a reference to Richard Stallman et al in the early days of GNU

[CommRLock78]

This one I had to share

[CommRLock78]

Mark Twain sure was a bad-a$$

[CommRLock78]

I'm posting two this time, since I didn't get to posting the first one yesterday


About 3 years ago now, I read through all four books in about month - I just couldn't put them down

[Diziet Sma]

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Satellite Safety Tip #14:
	If you see a bright streak in the sky coming at you, duck.

On the other hand, it may be just me in my Space-Taxi.

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	Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
Ltd. of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan.  The
company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 per cent
defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).
	The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
plastic. The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5 per
cent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them separately."
		-- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail