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Article #620653Re: Nostalgia
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:36
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:36
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On 2018-02-16, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-02-15, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > [22 lines snipped] > >> The nostalgia is for the sights, sounds, and smells those days. I can still >> recall leaning over the 1132 printer waiting for my printout to start. >> We're also nostalgic for out first acquaintance with the wonders of >> computers. Now every kid over 8 knows more than we did 50 years ago. > > I consider that unlikely. Agreed. I can't accept that the creators of the Internet don't know as much as the script kiddie who abuses it. Too many doting parents think their kid is a computer genius simply because he knows how to click a mouse. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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