Unix horror stories

[brk]

Wires?

We had abacuses!  There were no wires to touch together at all.  For  
a network we had to strap the abacus to a donkey and wait for him to  
travel to the next town.

You kids and your EEEEN-TER-NET.


On Aug 29, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

> On 8/29/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
>> Internet? Ha! We had UUCP! And we LIKED it! Bang!
>
>  You had UUCP?  Why ...
>
> [...list traffic...]
>
> ... back in my day, we didn't even have vacuum tubes!  We had to have
> two people standing together with wires in their hands!  And we were
> grateful to have that!