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What Do You Suggest? is a site that lets you visually explore how Google Suggest autocompletes a query. "What Do You Suggest takes a seed from you, then guides you on a journey through language and the collective lives of Google users."
It's cool - it shows a bunch of autocomplete options, with the thickness of the line indicating how many matches you'd get for each branch.
I just showed my age, big time, by copping to having used the internet before the web. And copping to have used Mosaic as my first browser. I feel old and...well, old.
But I'm really startled at the guy who got into IT because of Doom. I thought he was older school than that.
Mosaic was my first browser too!
I had to spend the better part of 10 minutes in a class on Monday explain what Telnet was to a student. He could not wrap his head around a text based connection between computers.
I remember logging into my dial up Delphi account so that I could use Gopher.
Also lots of chatting with friends back in California using TALK and YTALK.
I'd still telnet, if I didn't have to SSH instead.
Then I'm all FIDOnet this, newsgroups that--no need to keep pretending I'm a youngun.
eta: remember when you could finger people?
But telnet was still common when I was in coll--oh, right. Over 30.
I don't remember using Telnet, but I do remember using Homer and Fetch. And I loved that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty.