Comments on: Replacing Twitter with a .plan. http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:35:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paradox13VA http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/#comment-20548 Paradox13VA Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:42 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=5732#comment-20548 Heh, I remember writing a .bash script that messed around with finger, .project and write on darwin.clas Of course, I was a Government major at the time, so I have since forgotten all my AIX. Reminds me of a few years ago when AIM became all the rage (okay, more than a few). I couldn't understand why people were so excited about graphical ytalk. Heh, I remember writing a .bash script that messed around with finger, .project and write on darwin.clas

Of course, I was a Government major at the time, so I have since forgotten all my AIX.

Reminds me of a few years ago when AIM became all the rage (okay, more than a few). I couldn’t understand why people were so excited about graphical ytalk.

]]> By: Scott Nolan http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/#comment-20543 Scott Nolan Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:20:44 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=5732#comment-20543 Wow, Jason has some, uh, ASCII art on his ASCII-based Twitter; and that exact same art was sent to my temporary classroom email address by an anonymous sender when I was in the Air Force. I rather clueless class-administrator thought I had somehow asked for said email so he turned it over to his clueless supervisor, who did the same, who did the same. I was called into a clueless-colonel's office and offered an article 15 for "visiting bulletin boards for pornography" because the classroom email address I had for a week <i>received</i> this particular ASCII art. I rejected the offer and challenged the colonel to both get a clue and take responsibility for everything that arrived in his email inbox. The next month was particularly ugly at work, but eventually people came to their senses and began to understand the difference between the internet and bulletin board systems; and between completely open/accessible classroom email addresses and solicited email. AIM/MSN Messenger/Yahoo Pager are client/server expressions of IRC, which is an internet expression of UNIX <i>talk</i> program, which is a UNIX expression of earlier TOPS-10/TOPS-20/VMS <i>friends</i> commands. Some of those applications run in a lot less memory and are much, much more stable than their modern counterparts. Wow, Jason has some, uh, ASCII art on his ASCII-based Twitter; and that exact same art was sent to my temporary classroom email address by an anonymous sender when I was in the Air Force. I rather clueless class-administrator thought I had somehow asked for said email so he turned it over to his clueless supervisor, who did the same, who did the same.

I was called into a clueless-colonel’s office and offered an article 15 for “visiting bulletin boards for pornography” because the classroom email address I had for a week received this particular ASCII art. I rejected the offer and challenged the colonel to both get a clue and take responsibility for everything that arrived in his email inbox. The next month was particularly ugly at work, but eventually people came to their senses and began to understand the difference between the internet and bulletin board systems; and between completely open/accessible classroom email addresses and solicited email.

AIM/MSN Messenger/Yahoo Pager are client/server expressions of IRC, which is an internet expression of UNIX talk program, which is a UNIX expression of earlier TOPS-10/TOPS-20/VMS friends commands.

Some of those applications run in a lot less memory and are much, much more stable than their modern counterparts.

]]> By: Waldo Jaquith http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/#comment-20542 Waldo Jaquith Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:56:42 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=5732#comment-20542 Ha! I'd never heard of such a thing. :) Ha! I’d never heard of such a thing. :)

]]> By: Jeff Uphoff http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/#comment-20541 Jeff Uphoff Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:29:35 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=5732#comment-20541 Truly anal-retentive geeks even kept their .plan files under revision control using RCS. (guilty) Truly anal-retentive geeks even kept their .plan files under revision control using RCS.

(guilty)

]]> By: MB http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2008/07/twitter-finger/#comment-20540 MB Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:11:37 +0000 http://waldo.jaquith.org/?p=5732#comment-20540 Ha. Now I'm going to have to find a copy of mine. (And such an intelligible email address! I was stuck with acmmeb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu. Accounts only given to ACM members. I'm thinking I was probably the only Phil major at GSU who was also an ACM member . . .) Ha. Now I’m going to have to find a copy of mine.

(And such an intelligible email address! I was stuck with acmmeb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu. Accounts only given to ACM members. I’m thinking I was probably the only Phil major at GSU who was also an ACM member . . .)

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