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Clickety[^]
/ravi
modified 20-May-13 12:51pm.
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"The 2-3000 computer owners in SF..." Hilarious - who'd a thunk it? I lived in SF back then but don't recall this at all. It was at least another year before I could save up and buy a computer at Radio Shack (Commodore 64).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I love it when he said (something to the effect of), "the future is being able to copy the news you see on the screen to paper". And later on in the clip, the announcer says it will take 5 hours to download an entire newspaper (devoid of images and ads). How times have changed.
/ravi
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OT: What's the f stop of the lens on the SLR in your profile pic? 1.4? Looks like a pretty fast lens.
/ravi
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No, it's this: EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens[^].
Had this quite a few years: my walking-around-lens.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Nice. Hard to beat the versatility of a 28-135.
/ravi
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Agreed though that seemed like a good choice at the time. I dip in and out of photography: sometimes carry the camera around, other times won't touch it for months. Thinking of trying astro-photography and found a good site to get me started: Astrophotography Techniques[^]. Now I just have to buy a new camera body (I'm stilling using my old D400/Rebel XTi). This[^] would also be really nice to have. Alas, priorities, priorities...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Meanwhile, in Europe[^]
Also[^]
Plus others.
Today's youth will not feel the excitement as they hear their modems dialing out, or the sickening click as the provider hangs up, meaning no "artistic" pictures of ladies for you today!
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed” “One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535)
modified 20-May-13 11:50am.
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Yes, I remember reading about MiniTel. It was way ahead of what we had in the US.
/ravi
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Was that a Trash-80 that he was using?
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What do you mean "Before the internet"? There has always been Internet.
(At least, from my point of view )
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Sorry, I meant to say "the web".
/ravi
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That's still always been there from my point of view. If Wikipedia is accurate[^], the first web page ever created was created the same day I was born (November 13th, to save you some time searching the page).
modified 20-May-13 13:45pm.
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Really? Only 1990? I'm pretty sure I have some tee-shirts older than that.
ps your link is bad.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: <layer><layer>Really? Only 1990? I'm pretty sure I have some tee-shirts older than that. That's why I come here, I get to feel young.
mark merrens wrote: ps your link is bad. Weird, apparently it didn't like me not having http on it...maybe that's why it refused to auto-format it for me too. Should be fixed now.
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You're off by a decade.
/ravi
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By that you mean from your video? But that's my point - in my lifetime, there has never been a time without the internet or even the web. (Arguably, there was a gap between the proof-of-concept and it's wider scale implementation, but that was still before I started forming long-term memories.)
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