Silly User Mistakes
Here’s some fun on that topic from TechRepublic.
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This resulted from random lyrics sent to the Dilbert blog. It’s more comprehensible than some real songs. But not very . . .
aBook and the Medieval Help Desk
… from Dr. Platypus.
Too Much Time on their Hands
… or something. Scientists are thinking about galactic communications using Cepheid variable stars.
The Internet Will Never Work
So declared Clifford Stoll in a 1995 Newsweek article, now reproduced by The Daily Beast. There was actually a time when I thought the internet was for specialists, but I soon realized the error of my ways. (HT: The Agitator)
I Thought it was History
. . . but Packard-Bell is still around.
Remembering Fidonet
I enjoyed reading a short article on the history of Computer Bulletin Board Systems (later just BBS) on ZDNet, not because I was there at the start (in 1978 I was learning how to work with a programmable calculator), but because it ended up at Fidonet. Starting in 1985 I operated a Fidonet BBS in…