jsbowden.bsky.social
Just a guy who occasionally takes pictures.
System and network administrator. Info Sec is also a thing I do
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This is really going the distance.
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Fido, CompuServe, etc. Could gateway, yes, but they weren't on the Internet proper, and you weren't FTPing files over Fido.
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So...my point still stands. The Internet was not public prior to '93. The number of systems and users prior to that was multiple orders of magnitude less, and it was mostly students and researchers. As I stated in an earlier thread Tay deleted, encryption wasn't viable yet either then.
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And how were you getting online? Prior to GHWB signing the bill that opened the Internet to the public in '92, the only ways on were through universities, govt., military, and related telco and computer companies.
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The Internet wasn't public until '93.
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It's been weird since long before you were born.
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youtu.be/pBdGOrcUEg8
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Pancakes V
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Swift is what happens when you roll Spears's raw stage presence, Gibson's production ability, Aguilera's vocal talent, Elton John's musical skill, and Bernie Taubin's lyrical chops into one person. I'm not her target audience so I'm not a fan, but I can see why she is where she is.
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Vanilla in all the things. I put vanilla in pancakes, because that's how awesome vanilla is. An already perfect food gets better.
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I would put Last of the Mohicans on top.
I see Manhunter references, but it was incomplete (not on Mann, IMHO, it was the '80s). It did lead to The Silence of the Lambs, so it gets definite props. Which led to Red Dragon, and thus is the circle of life complete.
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Read The Fucking Manual. It's been a theme for decades.
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But more importantly, _DO_ you know where the library is?
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I was only an occasional lurker in talk.bizarre, so I obviously missed something. Which one of these nutjobs was hanging in t.b?
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I ran NNTP servers back when Usenet was the biggest drain on bandwidth networks had to deal with.
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Bought out the lease on my BMW after the first year and drove it for another fourteen years. The whole reason to initially lease was so I could give it back if I hated it.
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As much as I dislike Apple, didn't they tell the FBI to get fucked? If the Brits think they won't tell them the same thing, they're in for a shock.
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It's with a hard g. It's how a lot of southern accents say dog. Not to mention the whole Corgi association thing.
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It's probably better that we don't know.
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But it's still my favorite place ever. Too bad it was damaged beyond repair by hurricane Isobel and no longer exists. I saw so many great shows there over the years.
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To be fair, the concerts I was going to in my late teens and early 20s weren't typically mainstream. Pretty Hate Machine didn't do much outside of the techno / industrial base initially. Both of those shows were at The Boathouse in Norfolk, VA, which was not a large venue
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Saw @nin.com open for Peter Murphy in '90 and then a few months later as the headliner with Chemlab and Die Warzau opening for them. Awesome shows, you're gonna have a great time.
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Twins.
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Just refer to it as Couch Fucker. Much shorter, and everyone will know exactly who you mean.
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Part of this that isn't obvious if you weren't there is just how computationally expensive crypto was. Telnet and rsh were originally written in the 1970s and '80s, and weren't replaced with ssh until the late '90s because you would have melted your CPU doing the crypto before then.
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I graduated in '88, that wouldn't have gotten you into UVA even then. Everyone I knew who got in to UVA were straight A students with above a 4.0 via AP classes and a 1550 or better SAT score.
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I was looking for something last weekend. I moved the thing I was looking for out of the way so I could search under it.
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Am $80 1TB NVMe drive in a $20 external USB3 enclosure makes that go _so_ much faster.
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I only disagree because putting it in the garbage means you bought it to begin with. If the other people in the house didn't insist on it, there would never be any ketchup in my house. Ever.
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It was skateboarding for me, and it's more than just my knees. My ankles hate when I don't wear boots, and they aren't exactly happy even when I do.
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I really love how cutting IRS funding is a negative number on that chart. It's going to cost money to cut the IRS, because then it's even easier for the wealthy to cheat on their taxes. People are so fucking stupid, and there is just no excuse for it.
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For those of you making fun of her, how often do you clean out the exhaust tubing, vent, and internal dryer chassis? If you're not doing it at least annually, you're in for a surprise.
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I didn't think it yawned until after its cold hard jaws had been inserted. Shows what I know...
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Pronoun error; antecedent not found..
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Ia ia Cthulhu ftagn!
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She's heard me say Ho ho ho a million times, but she's never heard me say I'm Saturn. Can you tell her that for me Al?
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Just channel your inner Graham Chapman, and you can be Queen of the Britons.