[capty99]

playing around w/ google again and i was checking out the new 20 year usenet archive they have available...

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From: Communications Satellite <COMSAT at MIT-MC>
FAILED: Cory at MIT-DSPG; I gave up on sending this after 31 "temporary" errors.
Failed message follows:
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Date: 22 Nov 1982 0028-EST
From: Mel Pleasant <WORKS at RUTGERS>
Subject: WORKS Digest V2 #88
Sender: PLEASANT at RUTGERS at MIT-MC
To: WorkS: ;
Reply-To: WORKS at RUTGERS

Works Digest          Monday, 22 November 1982     Volume 2 : Issue 88

Today's Topics:
                Notes - Communications Breakthrough,
                   Hardware - The Corvus Concept,
      Programming - Extending the ASCII character set (6 msgs)
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Mail-from: ARPANET site PARC-MAXC rcvd at 10-Nov-82 2233-EST
Date: 10-Nov-82 19:36:21 PST (Wednesday)
From: Hamilton.es at PARC-MAXC
Subject: Communications Breakthrough
To: Human-nets @ Rutgers

   Mail-from: Arpanet host CMU-10A rcvd at 10-NOV-82 0826-PST
   Date: 10 November 1982 1126-EST (Wednesday)
   From: James.Morris at CMU-10A
   To: csl^ at PARC-MAXC, isl^ at PARC-MAXC, junk^ at PARC-MAXC
   Subject: Communications Breakthrough
   Message-Id: <10Nov82 112614 JM90@CMU-10A>

   Because you can't see the person who is sending you electronic
   mail you are sometimes uncertain whether they are serious or
   joking.  Recently, Scott Fahlman at CMU devised a scheme for
   annotating one's messages to overcome this problem.  If you turn
   your head sideways to look at the three characters :-) they look
   sort of like a smiling face.  Thus, if someone sends you a
   message that says "Have you stopped beating your wife?:-)" you
   know they are joking.  If they say "I need to talk to you :-(",
   be prepared for trouble.

   Since Scott's original proposal, many further symbols have bee
   proposed here:

   (:-) for messages dealing with bicycle helmets
   @= for messages dealing with nuclear war
   <:-) for dumb questions
   oo for somebody's head-lights are on messages
   o>-<|= for messages of interest to women
   ~= a candle, to annotate flaming messages

   So you see, bit-map displays are really quite unnecessary :->

i thought it was pretty interesting really...

http://www.google.co...nnounce_20.html

and some of the stuff is hilarious, and some is kinda weird, i dunno, go take a look... you older folks will enjoy it even more im sure.

[The Neoracle]

I was 32 days old when that message was sent.

[jaredigital]

wow. emoticons are that old? shazzam!!!

[capty99]

my mom was in high school when that message was sent.

[The Neoracle]

Who here thought AOL invented them?
/me raises hand.

[capty99]

yea, some early version...

[klewlis]

I was four and a half. I think that was around the time my family got our first computer, a Tandy Color Computer 2. We used to buy magazines with programs in them, and you'd enter in every line of code, one at a time, save it to a cassette tape (we didn't have a floppy drive), and then play it... wild. We weren't imagining the internet then!

[capty99]

dang, i grew up in a world of cds.

[skyhawk133]

I was in my mommies tummy when that was sent... and I remember my first computer... Commodore Colt, then the 64... those were the days! I remember when a CD Player was thousands of dollars... now you can pick one up for less than 25 bucks!

[MarkoDaGeek]

my first computer was a Gateway 2000 486 50 Mhz
family's first computer was a old IBM 286

[supersloth]

my computer took old 5.25" floppys until about a year ago in a few weeks. sloth just introduced to windows 9x that little while ago... jesus i was a friggin loser.

[blutrane]

:laugh: my mom just graduated from high school and my dad had been in the army for 2 years when that was sent..

i remember working on old 286's and 286 laptops that weighed like 20 pounds...lol

[iamcenz]

my first computer was a Intel Celerory 366mhz with 64 mb ram pretty good compared to some of your first computers

[blutrane]

that's cause our first comps were total old school

[ef2k]

my first computer was a Tandy, a 1000 i think, it used all 5.25" floppies, and had a whopping 4-color display :) ahh memories :) i remember one time i took an old answering machine apart and tried to plug the mobo from it into one of the ports on my 2nd Tandy lol