Ha! Yes, my first brush with the severe cognitive dissonance of "out there" was after about a month long virtual relationship over Minitel, with a very nice girl. I learned later through meatspace channels that she was not so nice, and perhaps not even a girl. It broke my tiny little Texas reared brain.
On 8/5/21 9:56 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Remember when there was an "out there" that was tantalizing and seemed just > out of reach? I once fell asleep on a long-distance call to Houston using a > 1200 baud modem just to get some new program from a BBS. I was probably > watching Night Line before nodding off. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ > Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 9:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] On Blankfaces > > No. I don't think I've ever watched Night Line. >8^D In the late '80s, I > spent almost all my time arguing on bulletin boards and using ftpmail to > download things like Minix. The Russians I knew didn't talk about politics at > all. > > On 8/5/21 9:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Do you remember that moment, when the USSR was crumbling, that the Russians >> on Night Line suddenly developed facial expressions? -- ☤>$ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
