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From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Apr 2010 04:10 Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > But I think most people know they're not 'friends' in the real sense. Indeed. As I said, my objections really come down to aesthetics. Which, I reckon, are important. If it wasn't for a very few people, plus, out of curiosity, seeing but not messaging with people I used to know on Fido, I wouldn't log on to Facebook at all. And certainly not on dialup... As now... -- Peter
From: Woody on 22 Apr 2010 04:36 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > i am sure we can all agree that it is better than google wave! > > What the hell is that? Its googles replacement for email / facebook / twitter / everything else. Trust me, you would really hate it! -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Apr 2010 09:32 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Its googles replacement for email / facebook / twitter / everything > else. > Trust me, you would really hate it! I trust you. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Apr 2010 09:32 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > This is so weird. The story has disappeared. I swear I read it! Maybe my > > mind is just fucked. > > Doens't matter, you have made it true by writing it. By being on the > internet it can be repeated until it is an undeniable truth. Well of course, unless somebody on the Internet is wrong... Surely not? Anyway, I remember it with a slight shiver of disgust. But it was on the Internet... -- Peter
From: Woody on 21 Apr 2010 03:17
gRowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > it's still madness > > > > > > to try Usenet (or mail) on line. > > > > > > > > > > That's nonsense. On-line newsreaders and on-line email date back > > > > > to the dial-up days and lots of people liked working that way. > > > > > > > > It may be nonsense to you, but I thought that online, dialup News or > > > > mail, especially if you were paying for the connection time, was > > > > ludicrous- particularly once decent offline programmes became available. > [snip] > > And because of that fact - regarless of the fact that you and I > prefer > > > to do these things off-line - your claim is false that it's madness to > > > try Usenet or email on-line in the dial-up days. > > > > It was not madness. It was a pain browsing the web if there were big > > pages, > > Which is why one could turn off graphics, Flash wasn't around, and if > you complained that a Web page took *ages* to download, the maintainer > would probably do something about it (if they'd had others and cared, > that is). > > A lot of the time these days with my 8 meg broadband, I find some > Websites no quicker than they were in the dial-up days. > > Then again, I ended up using ISDN dial-up... > > > it was a pain downloading big files, > > No it wasn't in general, because the job would be done by a multi-tasked > process leaving the rest of the comoputer for `whatever'. Maybe yours. Most ISPs had a two hour cutoff, and you had to pay per minute. Plus this was an old OS mac, so you wouldn't want to do 'whatever' as that would make it crash and lose your download. -- Woody www.alienrat.com |