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Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
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le nubian - Mar 09, 2010 7:58:16 am PST #13244 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:30:38 pm PST #13245 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 1:32:35 pm PST #13246 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Mosaic was my first browser too!
NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 1:35:30 pm PST #13247 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
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.
omnis_audis - Mar 09, 2010 1:47:49 pm PST #13248 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
- telnet. CHECK
- Mosaic. CHECK.
- Old. ayup, I guess so.
NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2010 1:54:57 pm PST #13249 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
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.
§ ita § - Mar 09, 2010 1:55:01 pm PST #13250 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Jessica - Mar 09, 2010 2:36:43 pm PST #13251 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But telnet was still common when I was in coll--oh, right. Over 30.
javachik - Mar 09, 2010 3:07:53 pm PST #13252 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I don't remember using Telnet, but I do remember using Homer and Fetch. And I loved that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty.
meara - Mar 09, 2010 4:05:11 pm PST #13253 of 25501
Yeah, I used telnet in college! Um, up through and past 1999. Some friends went to another school where they still had "plans" on their...whatevers, and you could "finger" them to see what they were up to. It was like facebook statuses, oldschool style, because some people changed that shit all the time, or were mad cryptic, or said where they were headed to...