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Pictorial and Written History of Bell Systems
gngulrajani writes "I have wasted an afternoon digging though this website. Lots of old school Bell marketing posters as well as technical specifications for things such as 'Telephone Memory Devices' and a 'dataphone service'."
'This is MS collectibles square'
'Please don't feed the penguings'
OMFG it is 911!!!1ONE!!
This is very frightening...I am going to go and hide under my bed.
This is from a print ad concerning the "Plot" to bury AT&T with a black and white picture of a bunch of people with shovels on top.
"Kayoed"??? What unique language is this? *reaching for dictionary*
Oh I see.
kayo
n. Sports pl. kayos
A knockout in boxing.
tr.v. kayoed, kayoing, kayos
1.Sports. To knock out.
2.Slang. To put out of commission.
Ah, there must be one other /.er who knows that on sight!
(Well it's mildly amusing to me anyway.)
Well at least Microsoft's motto isn't "We may be the only OS in town, and we act like it."
he talked of life.
its stupid dubya trying to get other countries to go to war and support the us! hes pissed off that hes losing power and hell do anything to keep it. us brought 911 on itself and now it needs the rest of teh world on its side we have to fight it!
912?
912 days. Al Qaeda probably didn't know about leapyears when they planned it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
we got until 9/8/2006 to get MATRIX operational!
Or maybe, 9/9 or 9/10.. Al Queda sucks at math.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
No dolt, it's 911 days BETWEEN 9/11/2001 and 3/11/2001. Nice math skills there, peon. What the hell are you doing on /.?
Dumbasses. 365 (2002) + 365 (2003) + 31 (12/2001) + 30 (11/2001) + 31 (10/2001) + (30 - 11) (9/2001) + 31 (1/2004) + 29 (2/2004) + 10 (3/2004) =
GASP!!! 911
Jumpin' Jehosaphat, he's right!!! 911 days BETWEEN 9/11/2001 and 3/11/2001..and 30 months/2.5 years EXACTLY
You, sir, are clearly a dork.
Did you calculate the leapyear, superwhit?
.vbs script you windows script kiddy:
Here, paste this into a
msgbox datediff("d", "03/11/2004", "9/11/2001")
Congratulations to the South Koreans for impeaching their president. You are an inspiration to U.S. patriotis to impeach their "President" George W. Bush
Patriotically yours,
Kilgore Trout
I purchased my first computer, an Apple ][+
//". There was, however, an "Apple II". That's right, roman numeral II. The symbols that look like ][ and // are just FONTS! They are FONTS of text that means the roman numeral II. The first one truncates the inboard serifs just to be stylish, and the second one is just an italic sans serif. No one ever tries to use alternative characters to replicate the fonts of other products; why do they always do it with the Apple II? It's a mystery.
This is off-topic but I just can't help it anymore. There was never any such thing as an "Apple ][" nor was there any such thing as an "Apple
Uhm, moron, he's right. It's 911 days INCLUDING the leap day 2/29/2004.
He said days BETWEEN 9/11/2001 and 3/11/2001. You're including one of the days. Start counting with 9/12/2001 and finish with 3/10/2004. Douchebag.
HAHAHAHA you faygola...it is 911 days transpired between the two. He did say between...even Yahoo news got this right:
For the moron that added it up to 912
"The attack occurred exactly 2 1/2 years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States -- and there 911 days in between the terror attacks in Madrid and those in New York and Washington. It also was Europe's worst terror attack since the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people."
Easiest way to get relief is to:
1. Dip penis in peanut butter.
2. Walk into the back yard
3. Call dog
4. Point Penis towards the dog's mouth.
5. Think happy thoughts.
"This is off-topic but I just can't help it anymore. There was never any such thing as an "Apple ][" nor was there any such thing as an "Apple //"
Oh man, I'm so glad you came by and cleared this up. I've been saying Apple Slash Slash for years!!!
"Derp de derp."
I know this does not matter, and I know it is just an obsessive personal quirk that it should matter to me, and I apologize for my obsessions. But if you go to Apple.com and do a site search on "Apple II" you will get 628 hits. If you do a search on "Apple ][" you will get zero hits. It really is a font, not a character. I do not say this in a spirit of meanness. It just pushes a button for me, I do not know why.
Historical tidbit: You couldn't type a [ on the Apple II keyboard. Yup! No [!!! Holy crap! You could, however, type a ]. How? Shift-M! Yet there was no ] over the M.
Some programming languages that required [ and ] had control key combinations to produce them in their editors, since they weren't on the keyboard. Other characters missing were {} (oh no, I can't write C!), the backslash, and lower case letters.
Fun system, it was. With limitations that almost sound like a joke today...