I get my "Geek Nostalgia Fix" by using WordPerfect for DOS 5.1.
I have it installed on three of my Windows XP computers. Using the function keys takes me back to the old days when my fingers never had to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse. I have it running under TameDOS to make it operate more smoothly under Windows XP. I have not tried running it on a 64bit OS yet.
If I really want to take a trip back in time, I can look at the first edition of WordPerfect magazine that I have kept. It has a great picture of a Wizard on the front and expounds "The Wizardry of 5.0". I remember when I moved my users from version 4.2 to 5.0 of WordPerfect... They thought I was a Court Jester, not a Wizard... but they learned to love it.
Excerpt: In the late 1980s, a Pfizer research group were looking for a compound which would treat hypertension. They were working on a method to enhance the activity of a compound called "atrial natriuretic peptide" (ANP). This compound was a natural diuretic, causing the kidneys to produce more urine, but it also relaxed blood vessel walls. So a drug which enhanced this activity would reduce high blood pressure.
For several different reasons, the compound was almost binned, but one side comment in some of the trials was that after four or five days of taking the drug, penile erections were observed. This attracted the attention of some of the Pfizer scientists who realized that the inhibition of the activity of PDE-5 was overcoming a proposed cause of erectile dysfunction.
The "Experts Exchange" is definitely on the top of my list. According to something that I read, they are using techniques "banned" by Google to get their high rankings. The technique involves "..showing you the user one page and the Google SEO bot a different page."
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I get my "Geek Nostalgia Fix" by using WordPerfect for DOS 5.1.
I have it installed on three of my Windows XP computers. Using the function keys takes me back to the old days when my fingers never had to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse. I have it running under TameDOS to make it operate more smoothly under Windows XP. I have not tried running it on a 64bit OS yet.
If I really want to take a trip back in time, I can look at the first edition of WordPerfect magazine that I have kept. It has a great picture of a Wizard on the front and expounds "The Wizardry of 5.0". I remember when I moved my users from version 4.2 to 5.0 of WordPerfect... They thought I was a Court Jester, not a Wizard... but they learned to love it.
Yes... Viagra
Viagra was discovered in much the same way... And where would we be today if did not have our Viagra spam messages?
According to:
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-discovery-of-viagra-a27733
Excerpt:
In the late 1980s, a Pfizer research group were looking for a compound which would treat hypertension. They were working on a method to enhance the activity of a compound called "atrial natriuretic peptide" (ANP). This compound was a natural diuretic, causing the kidneys to produce more urine, but it also relaxed blood vessel walls. So a drug which enhanced this activity would reduce high blood pressure.
For several different reasons, the compound was almost binned, but one side comment in some of the trials was that after four or five days of taking the drug, penile erections were observed. This attracted the attention of some of the Pfizer scientists who realized that the inhibition of the activity of PDE-5 was overcoming a proposed cause of erectile dysfunction.
The "Experts Exchange" is definitely on the top of my list.
According to something that I read, they are using techniques "banned" by Google to get their high rankings.
The technique involves "..showing you the user one page and the Google SEO bot a different page."