Davel23

HEY! LISTEN!

You’d probably enjoy Hard Ticket to Hawaii.

Pft, everyone knows you burn a house down with lemons.

Around the mid-80s a friend of mine set up a public-access Unix system. You could dial in and get shell access, and from there newsgroups, email, etc. It technically wasn’t a “live” internet connection, his system dialed in to Yale each night and downloaded newsgroups and stuff via UUCP, so there was at least a day’s delay between writing messages and getting a response. I don’t remember exactly when it was but I was around for the Morris worm so it was some time before that.

8 or 9. My dad let me have a little too much Seder wine.

M-Discs are not like standard Blu-rays, they were designed specifically for long-term archive storage. If you follow the link at the top of this thread you can get some more detailed information on them. They’re supposed to last several hundred years, but of course no one has empirical evidence of that yet.

I’m guessing 1 out of 10 respondents didn’t understand the question.

Our power was out for a week after a major storm in the area, but we got a generator about halfway through so it was really only three or four days.

Edit: When I was a kid my mom worked at a summer camp for two months out of the year and I came along too, there were only two buildings there with electricity.

I assume he’s including himself in “tech leaders”.