Posted by Rob Browning on 05/06/06 21:01

On 6 May 2006 00:23:20 GMT, Kim André Akerø
<kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com> wrote:

>onideus@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Kim André Akerø wrote:
>>
>> > To turn things around, I was also thinking about your own presence.
>> > What is "Backwater Productions", anyway? I'm almost seeing someone
>> > sitting in a swamp with a wooden computer he built himself 10 years
>> > ago from scraps he found in a dumpster somewhere.
>> >
>> > And who in their right mind would hire someone who poses himself as
>> > crazy (the image of the Mad Hatter from Alice In Wonderland comes to
>> > mind).
>>
>> Lay off my web site. I'm teh light years ahead of you. Teh site w@s
>> constructed in 1982. Noob.
>
>Well, I made that comment even without looking at your website. And
>what site was created in 1982? Backwater-productions.net? Not likely,
>since the domain name was registered in 2003, and the site is entirely
>in Flash 8, which, btw, makes the site completely off-topic even for
>alt.html.
>
>I also see one major mistake you've made. You're using
>backwater-productions.net, while backwater-productions.com is still up
>for grabs. That means anyone can register it and point it towards their
>own website. How's that for business practices, mr. Moulton?
>
>The terms "teh" and "noob" as well as the "AOLer speak" hints towards
>your age to be in the vicinity of 13-16 (at least your mental age, and
>even then I think I might be giving you too much credit), and you
>probably haven't been many years on the Internet, considering the
>history of the Internet and the World Wide Web is an unknown subject
>for you[1]; I'd say about four or five years.
>
>> "I'm not a professional."
>
>You've already proven that.
>
>[1] The first website explained what the WWW was, how to get a browser,
>and how to set up a web server, and was created in August 1991.

God, I can't believe people like this still exist, especially on
Usenet. Did Internet creator Al Gore push to have them added to the
Endangered Species List or something?

Rob
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is going to be opening franchises in Beijing and Calcutta. You're
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American doctor, Paul Smith. There will be a class full of Chinese
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quantum physics. Why can't she just learn to speak Chinese?"
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