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On 8/3/2018 3:28 PM, JimP wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 15:53:11 -0400, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net>
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, JimP wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:02:12 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2018-08-02, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2018-08-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:51:44 -0400
>>>>>>>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It may actually be the same thing, an expectation of centralized
>>>>>>>>> computers taking care of everyone, instead of a whole lot of computers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That is certainly the picture that appears in every science fiction
>>>>>>>> mention of computers pretty much right up until reality did something
>>>>>>>> different.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And now, under reality v2.0, the wheel is coming around again.
>>>>>>> We're going back to centralized computers taking care of everyone
>>>>>>> (FSVO "care").  There are still lots of computers everywhere,
>>>>>>> but they're just being used as terminals.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is Facebook the present reality of Eternal September (Not the site, the present
>>>>>> reality of the mob of people who would discover the Internet in September.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Most of the people on FB make the "eternal September" crowd look like
>>>>> intellectual giants.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Look at the accusation that the Russians meddled in the election by posting
>>>> bogus stuff on Favebook. Who the heck gets their political information from
>>>> FB??? If there are many people doing this we have a lot more problems than
>>>> just Russians!
>>>
>>> Apparently large numbers of people get their info only from FB.
>>>
>> I think that's some of the structure.
>>
>> It took me a long time to get online, but I knew about it since 1978 (Byte
>> ran a series about computer networking,  which did reference arpanet, and
>> there was also an article about the first small computer BBS).  I know
>> every so often after I got a modem in 1985 I'd dial up a local BBS, go
>> through the process of  registering, and then discover not much there, too
>> small a population to be of interest to me.
> 
> 1987 for me, I-Amiga listserv emailing list. Occasionaly we had a big
> argument over email or e-mail. Egad.
> 

Should that be "Egad" or "E-gad"???  ;-)


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