For the us there's also Edmun Scientific, altough I must admit it's lost some of it's quality since I was a kid

I think we need to send lots of letters to the FCC asking them to forbid americans and the whole world from discussing airplanes and threadmills in the same environmnet....

I mean, even here, months if not years after the fact, the topic is posted and bang another fight of will take off and will not take offs erupts... this friggin discussion is going to bring around the collapse of civilization, and we need to stop it.

Yes I have my possition on the whole snakes in an airplane floating in an ice cream bowl with infinite cherries on a threadmill discourse, but I'm not going to share it, I'm just fed up. Stop it, just stop it, or else we'll have to ban all friggin planes from the world...

Ok this is on a tangent but still on topic (Me prays). Please please tell me I'm not the only one to have ever used or tried this or I might start believing I am going mad...

I used the net well before I had a graphical web browser (mosaic), the trouble was not that the web was fresh (it was) or that I couldn't run the browser, but my trouble was that the provider I used, which was a local scientific institute where I (and lots of other kids) used a professor's stolen login to connect, was devoid of slip or ppp (PPP was high tech at that time) it was VT100 terminal only...

Until I found slipnot or slipknot, it was a browser like mosaic, designed to run over a terminal connection, without slip... it used lynx and ftp on the shell of the server to obtain the page source from the web, and then rz to zmodem it to itself to build and display....

After weeks of fight, I managed to make it work ONCE, and never again, it took me... what, three years to visit the web in graphics again (gopher was still fun back then. I miss it.). And never ever heard about it again.

I've tried to find material about this browser, to prove I was not hallucinating, but that damn band had to take a similar name, and bury any references of it away from the nooks of google and yahoo forever....

Please someone prove to me I was not mad!

This is funny, since it reminds me of a very interesting episode during one of dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes' adventures.

In said story (I forget which one it was right now) Holmes and Watson are on a train trip, when Watson discovers Holmes didn't know the earth orbited around the sun, and is doubly surprised when Holmes exclaims the fact to be interesting and that he was going to try and forget the fact.

In the story Mr. Holmes explains that to him, the mind is a tool, or in this case a tool chest. And that if he puts too many "tools" that are not useful for his work in the chest, then he'd have a less efficient tool chest full of clutter.

Even though I feel this vision to be very interesting and maybe even "practical", I also think it's innacurate myself, since general knowledge far from being useless, helps a person understand and interact with the world at large in a more effective manner.

And as such even if a piece of knowledge is not directly useful to solve a problem, the paradigms, workings or ideas behind that knowledge can be used or adapted to a situation at hand. I could count a lot of times in which I've used ideas or theories I learned from reading sci-fi stories as a kid to solve a situation in real life.

Anyhow, all in all it seems our dear Sherri is an avid Conan Doyle fan maybe?