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mph-humor Digest V97 #1


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mph-humor Digest				Volume 97 : Issue 1

Today's Topics:
	 Digest
	 [alt.sysadmin.recovery] Re: Helpdesk Blues
	 [alt.folklore.computers] Re: The Greatest Computer story ever!
	 Internet: End of civilization?
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Truly some of the finest imagery I've seen in Netnews of late.

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From: [email protected] (Michael J. Fromberger)
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Re: Helpdesk Blues
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:16:22 -0500
Organization: VideoGuide, Inc.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Jason
Lindquist) wrote:

>[email protected] (Patrick Gosling) writes:
>
>>An erupting volcano was attached to the net?  Hmmmmm, strange images
>>in my mind now.
>
>For shame.  "Was"?  AOL is *still* connected to the net.
>

"Volcano"?  No, I don't think so.  Actually, the best description of
AOHell I've seen came from a FOAF[1] who was bitching that "information
superhighway" was a stupid metaphor for the internet.  What if, he
wondered, the highway system were run like the Internet:

"AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on
board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars"

...and that really just about sums it up for me.

-M

[1] friend-of-a-friend

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From: [email protected] (Alun "Da Penguin" Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Greatest Computer story ever!
Date: 25 Feb 1997 12:02:57 -0000
Organization: Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales) Aberystwyth
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Further up the screen [email protected] wrote:
>
> Please see http://www.jrsconcepts.com/ to find out how an average Joe
> started a web service!

average-joe $ su
Password:
average-joe # /usr/local/etc/httpd
average-joe # ^D
average-joe $ 

Yup, the greatest computer story ever!
Wish my life was that interesting.

Cheers,
Alun.

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>From "I Hate Computers":

An editorial in the Iraqi government newspaper Al-Jumhuriya says that
the Internet is "the end of civilizations, cultures, interests, and
ethics." (AP 17 Feb 97, via Edupage) So here we have proof that there
is some good, some concern for the betterment of mankind, in Saddam
what's-his-name after all. Death to the Infidel... I mean Internet!

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Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> * Think locally, act globally.
finger [email protected] for PGP public key.
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