Bet I'm one of the few posting here who was actually at the 1964 World's Fair. (*sigh*)

(I still have my "Meet me at the the smoke ring" button...)

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud sez,

...and Internet pioneer. Most youngsters don't remember Internet Talk Radio, but it was a revelation to some of us. I remember using an FTP->Email gateway to download the Sun .AU audio files, using CompuServe to send the requests but receiving the pieces on my MCI Mail account (see, MCI Mail was free to receive, but cost to send, where CompuServe was $6/hour...and yes, this was a more innocent time before mailbombs when you could use one email account to send a 25M file to a completely different email account) so I could listen to shows like Geek of the Week and the National Press Club Luncheons. (Had to manually gather the hundred UUENCODEd pieces of the file together and decode, and I would dedicate a PowerBook 145 to downloading the parts at 2800-baud while I worked on the desk machine.) I still have gold CD-Rs I burned with my $1,000 Sony 2x cart-load SCSI CD-R burner of ITR distributions. If you get a chance, listen to Hell's Bells: A Radio History of the Telephone, a show I still recommend to everyone to get an historical overview of that combo MP3 player/video player/cell phone y'all are carrying. Just don't expect CD-quality sound...

Sorry, has nothing whatsoever to do with photos, but seeing Carl's name brought up a whole lot of memories...

Y'all do know that Google isn't the only search engine on the Internet, right?

That's not the point of the article. It notes that those of us of more mature years warn you youngsters about posting unnecessary and personally-identifiable information to your accounts on Facebook, MySpace, or even the profile section on this website, and then go along posting that same information ourselves on our accounts on the above. While I am personally careful about what I post to external websites and despise the lack of privacy data mining has wrought, I probably have way too much information posted about myself on my own blog, so I suppose even I am somewhat hypocritical

This isn't exactly a surprise, either, since those of us born in the 1950s are likely not strangers to external chemical influences, yet routinely shout, "Just say no!" The "do as I say, not as I do" form of parenting has been around as long as there have been parents...but for whatever it's worth, at least some of it is an attempt at keeping you from making the same stupid mistakes we did. Go out and make your own. ;)

This just in: Steve Jobs, worried that the combination fruit stand/computer repair trailer in Ohio was too close to trademark infringement, filed suit today. "Tomatoes are red, so are many Apples," said Jobs. "This could clearly confuse the public and dilute our trademarks."

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