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stefuel
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: Is there no end??? |
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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop and how many clicks does it take to reach the end of internet porn links? 
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Fujifrontier
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do you really want to know? 
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whats6x7
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Three
Thats the answer to the first question. Not sure about the second.
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jask
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I thought this was going to be a thread about buying theater gear...... like say,,, a ISS switcher?
nice score
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stefuel
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| jask wrote: | I thought this was going to be a thread about buying theater gear...... like say,,, a ISS switcher?
nice score |
My ISS has been acting up. This one has 5 rgbhv inputs and 3 rgbhv outputs plus it has factory rack mounts. I just couldn't say no to a $30.00 score
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WanMan
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It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location.
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Curt Palme
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All I know is if you stop clicking and licking at the same time, that's called a 'happy ending' 
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whats6x7
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| WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it
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Heywood Jablome
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
Puppy! Who's ever archie'd for FTP PR0N?
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AnalogRocks
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
I do and I have.
3. Do you know what Gopher is?
4. Have you ever used it?
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Fujifrontier
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:shifty:
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jask
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
I do and I have.
3. Do you know what Gopher is?
4. Have you ever used it? |
remember how COOL Mosaic was when it let you access non-standard pages (for Gopher) with embedded pics!! the real Dawn of internet porn 
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whats6x7
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| jask wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
I do and I have.
3. Do you know what Gopher is?
4. Have you ever used it? |
remember how COOL Mosaic was when it let you access non-standard pages (for Gopher) with embedded pics!! the real Dawn of internet porn |
OK, Fine. If it's going to be a pissing contest. Anyone ever dial into a BBS at 2400 Baud using ProComm and then use a TSR program that let you watch the image you were downloading with ZModem as it was saved to your harddrive (no pun intended)? Remember the list of Bulletin Boards in the back of that big-assed book Computer Shopper?
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jask
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | jask wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
I do and I have.
3. Do you know what Gopher is?
4. Have you ever used it? |
remember how COOL Mosaic was when it let you access non-standard pages (for Gopher) with embedded pics!! the real Dawn of internet porn |
OK, Fine. If it's going to be a pissing contest. Anyone ever dial into a BBS at 2400 Baud using ProComm and then use a TSR program that let you watch the image you were downloading with ZModem as it was saved to your harddrive (no pun intended)? Remember the list of Bulletin Boards in the back of that big-assed book Computer Shopper? |
What does that have to do with PRON?? (Kidding)
I was not trying to One-up,I actually remember sitting at a monitor in the "computer Lab" back in the days when we all brought our own serial mouse and box"o" floppies and someone saying "ever heard of Mosaic?", oh yeah and the original version of Netscape...... Man!! this is like talking about old girlfriends 
seems the wife is right, I may be a bit of a geek.
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garyfritz
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Mouse?? Floppies!? Where'd you young bucks find that new-fangled stuff??
If you wanna go back to old tech, I wrote programs for my college CS labs in FORTRAN. On punch cards.
Better yet, my senior year in high school (1974) they put in a time-share link to a local college. It was an ASR-33 teletype -- yaknow, the things that actually hit the paper like an old mechanical typewriter, running at a blazing 110 baud. And the disk storage on the system was very limited and programs were prone to get deleted at any time, so you could back them up locally. On PAPER TAPE. Yeeks.
But I made up for it a few years later in college. In 1975 I started using a system called PLATO. It had 512x512 graphics screen, a touch panel, and better yet it had things like email, notes (the predecessor of Usenet groups, and the "tin" newsreader was a direct copy of the notes interface), group chatrooms, even the ability to monitor another person's display like you can do in Netmeeting. All these Internet-like features preceded the "real" Internet by 20 years or more. After I left college and went to work for HP, I went into withdrawal for 5-6 years until HP came out with the first HP-UX systems in 1984 and I got hooked back into "the stuff" again. Ahhhhh, email!!
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whats6x7
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OK Gary, you win, but not by much. My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 with a 1Mhzprocessor, 3.5K of Ram, 13" black and white TV, Datasette drive that stored programs on cassette tape, and an Atatri-like cartridge with Lunar Lander stored on it. I remember being envious of my friends that had Commodore 64s.
http://oldcomputers.net/vic20.html
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jask
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I remember my Dad bringing home a computer back in the 70's, the monthly lease was more than a mortgage payment and it ran a HUGE stack of numbered punchcards.IThe computer was the size of an international travel suitcase,and when I showed up for school with wasted punchcards my classmates thought I had just returned from NASA.....he probably could have paid a couple of grad students to do the same work.....and saved a pile of money and stress.
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jask
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I remember my Dad bringing home a computer back in the 70's, the monthly lease was more than a mortgage payment and it ran a HUGE stack of numbered punchcards.IThe computer was the size of an international travel suitcase,and when I showed up for school with wasted punchcards my classmates thought I had just returned from NASA.....he probably could have paid a couple of grad students to do the same work.....and saved a pile of money and stress.
edit: oops! just talked to my brother, they were optical cards...and it was some sort of Olivetti
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Heywood Jablome
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I've got an oldtimer who still has a punchcard Finite Element Analysis he did for US Army helicopter transmission gears. Two-dimensional, square matrix element FEA...
I told him I want him to will it to me!
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AnalogRocks
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | jask wrote: | | AnalogRocks wrote: | | whats6x7 wrote: | | WanMan wrote: | | It is an extreme rarity that I cross an HTTP-based porn site. I like to think of it all be located in a more convenient (read that nntp) location. |
OK, quick Geek test. How many people here
1. Know what Usenet is
2. Have ever used (no pun intended) it |
I do and I have.
3. Do you know what Gopher is?
4. Have you ever used it? |
remember how COOL Mosaic was when it let you access non-standard pages (for Gopher) with embedded pics!! the real Dawn of internet porn |
OK, Fine. If it's going to be a pissing contest. Anyone ever dial into a BBS at 2400 Baud using ProComm and then use a TSR program that let you watch the image you were downloading with ZModem as it was saved to your harddrive (no pun intended)? Remember the list of Bulletin Boards in the back of that big-assed book Computer Shopper? |
RIGHT! WYSE terminal,with Tandy TRS-80, 300 baud acoustic coupler, princes phone (DTMF) [think wargames], BBS boards, manually dialed. It got to the point where I could imitate the 300 baud connection tones by whistling and keep the connection alive for almost 2 minutes! Geekdom Rocks!
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