Well, my father was a journalist and a bibiliophile, so I was exposed to the ambiance early on, but I only started programming in 1960, in tenth grade, on a machine that absolutely immunized me against nostalgia.
If you think I'm old, I once saw a post from Werner Bucholz on this list. Gone, alas. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 8:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX true/false (was Constant Identifiers) "Mehitabel" - wow! You're a lot older than I assumed, Mr Metz! --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* In its state of nature [a dog] has a smell, and habits, which frustrate man's love; he washes it, house-trains it, teaches it not to steal, and is so enabled to love it completely. To the puppy, the whole proceeding would seem, if it were a theologian, to cast grave doubts on the "goodness" of man; but the full-grown and full-trained dog, larger, healthier and longer-lived than the wild dog, and admitted, as it were by Grace, to a whole world of affections, loyalties, interests and comforts entirely beyond its animal destiny, would have no such doubt. -C S Lewis, _The Problem of Pain_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 14:53 Hindsight? I never understood the purpose of the web, given that gopher and SGML were already here. All we were missing was a protocol called Mehitabel ;-) ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 5:09 PM Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-) --- On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 21:55, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > You didn't read The World According to ARPA? As for the WWW, I'd rather we > had stuck to Gopher. > > ________________________________________ > From: Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> > Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 4:48 PM > > Loss of Internet access would have been sheer luxury! (insert The Four > Yorkshiremen sketch here) as this was the 1980s :-) The Internet was > there, but nobody had heard of it unless he was the sort of geek who > soldered his own modem cable, and WWW was probably not even a twinkle in > timbl's eye :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
