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Posted by William Tasso on 10/11/06 21:52
Fleeing from the madness of the NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 jungle
richard <don@john.son> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,alt.html
and said:
[What a lot of groups - f'ups suggested]
>
> "techfiddle" <renaissance@australiamail.com> wrote in message
> news:1160596166.893954.199090@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> ...
>> After 30+ years of being online, and a stint--a long time ago
>> as a graphics designer at IBM -- the last thing I can tolerate is some
>> snotty IT staff person, usually barely out of their teens ...
>
> You were online in 1975? I dont think so.
> Unless you mean the old ARPA net?
> Or maybe some military intranet?
those are two possibilities but there are others - depending on how one
chooses to define 'online'. In 1976 I played my (small) part in keeping a
datacentre (in London) available to amongst others ...
o ICI
o Houses of Parliament
There were also links to datacentres in Canada & USA
> Ask a PhD one simple question and he'll give you a 300 page disertation.
> Ask a 12 year old the same question and he'll give you the proper answer
> in one sentence.
Couldn't possibly comment :)
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William Tasso
http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp
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