Wires?

We had abacuses! There were no wires to touch together at all. For a network we had to strap the abacus to a donkey and wait for him to travel to the next town.

You kids and your EEEEN-TER-NET.


On Aug 29, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

On 8/29/06, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Internet? Ha! We had UUCP! And we LIKED it! Bang!

 You had UUCP?  Why ...

[...list traffic...]

... back in my day, we didn't even have vacuum tubes!  We had to have
two people standing together with wires in their hands!  And we were
grateful to have that!

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