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My initial thought as well, so you're no outlier, unless we are.

"WHO'S 'THEY?????'"

Right? I've been waiting a lot of years for an upgrade to my voice-activated timer setter/music player launcher.

The best thing I ever did for my father was to buy him a kindle and an access point and show him how to use Project Gutenberg to get books. He loved the old writings (he being a GED holder who was in the Navy during Korea yet had read the entire Harvard Classics). He had a special rolled up towel he used to prop it on his lap in his favorite chair and he read and read and read. When he passed he was reading "Legends of the Jews" from 1931.

I had some small e-correspondence with Michael S. Hart back in the 90's as well, and made a few modest contributions to the project, which made my English major undergraduate heart swell with pride and joy.

I guess this is only to say that PG is special to me for these reasons, and I am glad to see it still thriving. <3

I also enjoy the one about testing bird strike tolerances with store-bought chicken.

I loved Pegasus. Specifically because to move it to another machine you just had to copy the PMAIL folder and make a shortcut. No registry awareness, no dependencies.

I stopped reading once the author claimed it was a lie because the SecSrv knew technical terms, then claimed it was a lie because they didn't know the technical terms. It's too early in the morning to be purposely confused.

I would be perfectly satisfied with the ST:TNG Computer. Knows all, knows how to do lots of things, feels nothing.

TIL '\a' is bell on POSIX. That's neat to me all by itself.

I have a MicroVAX in my living room that I use as an end table.

I helped interview a guy recently who was (a) ESL, and (b) Typing in our questions and reading the answers at a breakneck pace to the point where it was almost pathological; we could not get a word in. In unspoken horror and synchronization, we got through the formal part of the interview as quickly as we possibly could.

I still miss bitnet.

I feel this in my soul. I work in higher education, and every major contribution I've made has been ripped from my hands and either dashed like the first copy of the ten commandments or handed over to someone shinier. I'm still proud of all I've done.

I have always thought the infinite proliferation of TLDs was a stupid idea. I'd be enlightened if I could think of one scenario that benefits from it outside of the registrars.

I still remember looking at these with my mother when I was small. We loved to hunt for Gold Bug. She told me later in life that her favorite was, "Lowly worm washes his face and foot." (He always wore a sock and shoe on the end of his tail.)

Not sure if the photoset is biased, or if drunk people really like pointing.

I second this.

All HTTP forums are pretty much just centralized recreations of various components of Usenet

The VAXbb clone I wrote in 1999 would beg to differ. :)

I used "rollicking" in one description and it was exactly what it sounds like to your unconscious when you are far too drunk at a country bar

This comment is bang on.

Plenty guitarists are far better than Hendrix, but they didn't get there in a vacuum.

I have an old sampler religious text and inside the cover is The Golden Rule in every major religion--I want to say there are ten or a dozen of them, from Zoroaster to the Bhagavad Gita.

It's, for lack of a better term, "High English." It is meant to sound grand, and thus the grander old style was used. Which is entirely appropriate; IIRC the original Hebrew uses grander language for poetic passages & the words of the LORD.

What I keep thinking of following this is from Matthew 5:

Again, you have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’ 34But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35or by the earth, for it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King...

Implying that even in a religious context, one might swear on "one's mother's grave"in the metaphorical sense. So then I think there must be a natural and historical reverence to oaths in general, which sends my mind down more Neil Gaiman-ish paths. I would bet that the significance of an Oath is older than every extant religion.

I'm just happy that a tool that PropriAdobe has sat on and crowed about for years is soon to be a click away for the masses and the hackers.

I love this debate and I expect it will go on forever. It boils down to, A: "California's problems are because California is too California!" "B: Nooo, we have not yet begun to California! If we California harder we can solve all the problems!"

Submitted with humor and best regards.

Similarly, I used it to answer the question, "Who was the Black female author whose works were saved from an estate bonfire?" Neither DDG nor Goog could answer for me (kept coming up Maya Angelou which is totally wrong--it was, of course, Zora Neale Hurston as I should have remembered in the first place.

It's Warren Ellises, all the way down.

I read it as ironic.

Most definitely! https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java_Edition_version_histo...