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On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 19:18:38 -0500, Charles Richmond
<nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>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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