Please Remember Netiquette <snip>

[John Conover]

matthew writes:
> 
> BTW, maybe I'm moving into the "grumpy old geek" stage...I hope not.
> Sometimes I feel like it, though. I got my first computer in 1981,
> started using Unix in college where I even studied such esoteric things
> as Lisp (don't remember any of it, though, just that I have to count
> parentheses), have used DOS, every version of Windows since 3.0, and
> now with Linux I am back to the unix mindset after a long absence. I
> got my first email account in 1987 (local on the university's vax
> system), used to post on BBS's for years until the internet really
> caught on, my first internet account in 1994 or 95, and so on.
> Sometimes I feel like this guy:
> 
> http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050803
> 
> http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050810
> 
> Bummer, I'm older than he is...35.
>

Yea, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

     John

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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/