There have been a few articles currently up about how the Internet was created thirty years ago. All good, but there is one important change that occurred that set up the Ka-Boom in use. It was the change to allow the public, not just corporate and government, to access the Internet without going through one of those entities. No longer did we need to prove we were either a corporate, charity or government organization, I do know a few people who might have fudged a bit on that.
No longer did we need CompuServe, AOL or Prodigy to do what we wanted to do. That dial-up chat became an online website. The creation of the Gopher browser was how we explored. Oh the magic that enthralled my children and their friends. Many browsers were created, many operating systems were created, and many programs were created, all to access the Internet.
Also, games, lots of games. Games on the Internet. My oldest child got into games and got an offer to write for one of the largest companies. He was a junior in high school. He instead went to college and became a cop, which is what he wanted to do more than write games.
In late June 1994 the beginnings of What-Me.com were online. At the time it was a website for information about Mastocytosis and Hepatitis C. I started using “free” webservers, but usually was kicked off because I had so much traffic it caused overloads. Now I get that much traffic just from the Russians and Chinese. I am rebuilding the website as something messed it up and all the backups. Hmmm.
May the fork be with you.
Blue, the LA Times article was very informative. I hadn’t actually understood the issues. Thanks for posting.
Pro Publica has yet another Clarence Thomas scoop — that same billionaire paid for his adopted nephew’s private schooling, totaling at least $150,000
The moving finger has been busy lately
Daniel reads the words “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN” and interprets them for the king: “MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed … and found wanting;” and “UPHARSIN”, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
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46 years ago!
gee… nothing like making a lot of us here feel old 🙂
Another How old is you.
Orwell’s prediction of 1984 came and went 39 years ago.
My first # was 35147…..8 people party line.
Practical Move has been scratched from the Derby due to running a temperature.
Whiskey Jack needs another horse.
This brings in Cyclone Mischief in case anyone else needs a change.
Sarah with latest Seditious Conspiracy convict Enrique Tarriio
So the some of the articles about the tuition say it’s Thomas’s child such a horrible thought that those two should breed. Glad to hear it’s an adopted nephew I didn’t know you could do that
so i’m not completely alone and out-of-touch being that i’ve only seen one, the first one, of the series.
So many things come to the mind when fans think about Star Wars, especially on May 4 — or May the Fourth, the unofficial Star Wars holiday also known as Star Wars Day.
The giant yellow letters popping out from deep space. Desert planets, huge spaceships, angry machine-man fathers and annoying farm boys. “Do or do not, there is no try.”
And yet for a select few, Star Wars Day is nothing but a black hole in pop culture.
Believe it or not, there are people who have never consumed a single part of the franchise — not the original films in the 1970 and ’80s, not the love-them-hate-them prequels of the 2000s, not even the seemingly infinite sequels and streaming spinoffs in today’s Disney-dominated entertainment climate.
And they’re fine with it.
“I’ve never felt like I’ve missed anything by not seeing Star Wars,” 28-year-old Harris Foster of Austin told The Post. “In fact, I’ve come to find that I know everything I need to know about the series through things like parodies and just the overall cultural osmosis of media discussion.”
[…]
In their defense, watching Star Wars in 2023 is a complicated business. The easiest way may be to watch the movies in order of their release — starting with the original trilogies from the ’70s and ’80s, then the prequel trilogy from the early aughts, to the sequels from the last decade. But Disney has amassed a number of animated and live-action shows, as well as some television shows, that make it hard to complete a clean re-watch or binge.
So for many, next year’s Star Wars Day may look the same to this year’s — a day of yub nub celebrations for their continued obstinance.
Not that they’d know what a yub nub is.
aforementioned celebration
This is the ending of the unremastered version of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, featuring the song “Yub Nub”
I’m so old, our ice box really was an ice box.
Sturgeone
Do you remember your ring code? As a telephone operator in the 60s, we still had party lines and you needed to know the ring down codes to call folks on a party line.
2 longs. You had to wait and see if thete was gonna be any more. If you knew the trick you could take out the microphoe part without a “click” and um….. listen in.
Not that any of us 3 boys ever did such a thing.
We had scaruples and stuff.
I was working at the Galleria Mall in Houston, I think it was Memorial Day, when a tidal wave of humanity came surging up the escalators. I asked somebody what in the world is going on? They said, “Some movie.”
As an operator, you just had to move the key back to hear everything rather than waiting for the disconnect light to go out.
Not that we did that sort of thing since we had scruples and stuff.
May the Ford be with you.
Forty six years ago? My how time flies. Shit, I already had my Master’s Degree in 1977. Now I REALLY feel old.
“Officials from the Churchill Downs racetrack, the home of the famed Kentucky Derby, have described the recent deaths of four horses as “unacceptable” and “troubling.”
“The four race horses have died in separate incidents within a five-day stretch.”
“Since the start of Kentucky Derby week – on April 29 – two horses died suddenly from unknown causes at the track according to officials.”
“Wild on Ice, a Derby contender, was hurt while training last Thursday and Take Charge Briana was injured in a race on Tuesday. Both were “euthanized for humane reasons.”
My little brother spilled his orange soda on me, so it was pretty much like every other movie we saw together. I’ve seen four of them. The first prequel (with JarJar) was terrible, so I lost what little interest I had in the franchise. Star Trek forever!
more strike ‘toons
Attribution: The Write Stuff by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
and
Attribution: Writers Strike Sequel by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
Just as D.C. is a company town and the newspaper of choice is the Washington Post, Los Angeles is a company town and the newspaper of choice is the LA Times. The LA Times has an article up today that goes over the writers strike and why. hope it is not behind a paywall.
There have been a few articles currently up about how the Internet was created thirty years ago. All good, but there is one important change that occurred that set up the Ka-Boom in use. It was the change to allow the public, not just corporate and government, to access the Internet without going through one of those entities. No longer did we need to prove we were either a corporate, charity or government organization, I do know a few people who might have fudged a bit on that.
No longer did we need CompuServe, AOL or Prodigy to do what we wanted to do. That dial-up chat became an online website. The creation of the Gopher browser was how we explored. Oh the magic that enthralled my children and their friends. Many browsers were created, many operating systems were created, and many programs were created, all to access the Internet.
Also, games, lots of games. Games on the Internet. My oldest child got into games and got an offer to write for one of the largest companies. He was a junior in high school. He instead went to college and became a cop, which is what he wanted to do more than write games.
In late June 1994 the beginnings of What-Me.com were online. At the time it was a website for information about Mastocytosis and Hepatitis C. I started using “free” webservers, but usually was kicked off because I had so much traffic it caused overloads. Now I get that much traffic just from the Russians and Chinese. I am rebuilding the website as something messed it up and all the backups. Hmmm.
Blue, the LA Times article was very informative. I hadn’t actually understood the issues. Thanks for posting.
Pro Publica has yet another Clarence Thomas scoop — that same billionaire paid for his adopted nephew’s private schooling, totaling at least $150,000
The moving finger has been busy lately
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You can bet all the daily racing and the option to advance bet the Derby is also available.
46 years ago!
gee… nothing like making a lot of us here feel old 🙂
Another How old is you.
Orwell’s prediction of 1984 came and went 39 years ago.
My first # was 35147…..8 people party line.
Practical Move has been scratched from the Derby due to running a temperature.
Whiskey Jack needs another horse.
This brings in Cyclone Mischief in case anyone else needs a change.
Sarah with latest Seditious Conspiracy convict Enrique Tarriio
So the some of the articles about the tuition say it’s Thomas’s child such a horrible thought that those two should breed. Glad to hear it’s an adopted nephew I didn’t know you could do that
so i’m not completely alone and out-of-touch being that i’ve only seen one, the first one, of the series.
It’s Star Wars Day. Here are the people who’ve never seen the movies. – The Washington Post
aforementioned celebration
This is the ending of the unremastered version of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, featuring the song “Yub Nub”
I’m so old, our ice box really was an ice box.
Sturgeone
Do you remember your ring code? As a telephone operator in the 60s, we still had party lines and you needed to know the ring down codes to call folks on a party line.
2 longs. You had to wait and see if thete was gonna be any more. If you knew the trick you could take out the microphoe part without a “click” and um….. listen in.
Not that any of us 3 boys ever did such a thing.
We had scaruples and stuff.
I was working at the Galleria Mall in Houston, I think it was Memorial Day, when a tidal wave of humanity came surging up the escalators. I asked somebody what in the world is going on? They said, “Some movie.”
As an operator, you just had to move the key back to hear everything rather than waiting for the disconnect light to go out.
Not that we did that sort of thing since we had scruples and stuff.
May the Ford be with you.
Forty six years ago? My how time flies. Shit, I already had my Master’s Degree in 1977. Now I REALLY feel old.
And sthop making fun of my lithp.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/sport/churchill-downs-kentucky-derby-horse-deaths-spt-inl/index.html
“Officials from the Churchill Downs racetrack, the home of the famed Kentucky Derby, have described the recent deaths of four horses as “unacceptable” and “troubling.”
“The four race horses have died in separate incidents within a five-day stretch.”
“Since the start of Kentucky Derby week – on April 29 – two horses died suddenly from unknown causes at the track according to officials.”
“Wild on Ice, a Derby contender, was hurt while training last Thursday and Take Charge Briana was injured in a race on Tuesday. Both were “euthanized for humane reasons.”
My little brother spilled his orange soda on me, so it was pretty much like every other movie we saw together. I’ve seen four of them. The first prequel (with JarJar) was terrible, so I lost what little interest I had in the franchise. Star Trek forever!
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