On Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today [PHOTO]
@BadUncle ha, so true. Can't remember my gigantic handle there. To say nothing of Usenet!! alt.blabbin But for this user, Prodigy was the first thing that really felt like The Internet.
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On Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser That Turns 20 Today [PHOTO]
All true, and yet. AOL and Prodigy were been founded in the mid-1980s and each had hundreds of thousands of users by then. The thing was, if you were on Prodigy you could hang only with fellow Prodigy members, but not contact anyone on AOL. So these were closed systems, but they were teeming with action of all kinds, discussion boards, games, journalism, the beginnings of blogging. (I met my husband on one of the literature boards there! He had the nerve to complain about Flaubert's Parrot I could NOT believe.)
When Mosaic and Netscape came out, you could hardly wrap your head around the idea that everyone would be able to talk with everyone, it was so obviously such a monumental, life-altering thing. But by then the habit of staring slackjawed at the screen for hours every day was well established among the geeks.
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On Killer Cops And Newspaper Wars On The California Coast
So good NOOOO DON'T LEAVE USSSSSS NOOOOOO
SO SO good.
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On Twitter Stomps Out Micropayments
I am SO MISERABLE about this. #ugh #bah
Also, what form would ill-intentioned Tweet Action payments take?
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On Men Suddenly Abandon Socks!
I agree about these (unisex) socks.
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On How To Be Old: Two Women, Their Husbands, Their Cats, Their Alchemy
Beard, or wig? (either preferable to wearing trousers rolled.)
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On Ask Polly: Should I Make The First Move On My Dream Girl?
LW1, when I met my husband there is no WAY I would ever have imagined I would date him. He is shy, older than I am, and moved in social circles that were entirely foreign to me. Eventually I wised up, though, and we've been happily married for many years now.
It's possible (I have no idea how possible) that your dream girl is starting to imagine the possibilities with you. If you were to date, though, you'd have to hang out with her friends, as well as with her; surely you don't want to be one of those guys who makes a girl give up her friends just because he is insecure? That way madness lies.
To me this is one of the real costs, the real risks, of being in love with someone; you have to come out of your comfort zone, as Polly suggests. If it's worth it to you to be with this girl, maybe go hang out with her friends, and not worry too much about it, because if it's what she wants, for you to get along with her friends--a reasonable desire on the part of a girlfriend--then that's what you do. And because it will make her happy, it is also likely to be FUN. Just try it! With a view to having fun!! I don't know!! But I have this idea it will all work out fine.
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On The Before And After Of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
@Clarence Rosario a tiger!! How could I have forgotten that.
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On White Conservatives On Supreme Court Wondering Whether We Need Laws That Allow Black People To Vote For Democrats
@thematt Here's why. Obama's career is in no way so easily pigeonholed as that of Clarence Thomas, who has failed to deviate from ideological lines--conservative lines, and indeed racist lines, as Layne rightly contends, throughout his Supreme Court career. However clever his reasoning!! Anyone may tell in advance how he will rule. It's the predictability of Thomas's positions that is at issue here.
Believe it or not, if Obama's votes had all (ALL) been as resolutely anti-black as Thomas's have been, then yes: I would sympathize completely with Limbaugh's fantasy remarks that you suggested up there, as a legitimate expression of scorn. Indeed I do agree with Limbaugh, now and then. Even a stopped clock, etc.
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On "The Exquisite Corpse Project": A Movie About When Your Friendships Go Horribly Wrong
Thoroughly enjoyable!! Despite surface appearances (incl. sexy shoplifting, poisonings, demonic possession) it is a very delicate and thoughtful commentary on ambition, and on the friendship of the mens.