The page is slashdotted? OMG. Pardon me while I turn my useent history webserver off. If you pricks find this I won't be able to get email for a month.
That's not actually the first one. When I made it up I had to explain to the fucktard I was flaming what it meant; the true first *plonk* post has this explanation.
What was I doing up at 4:21 am? Uh, never mind. Maybe this is why I havn't had a job since all useent archives went online.
First *plonk* was me circa 1988 or 1989. It would have been talk.bizare x-posted to alt.flame.
I think it was the one where I flamed some guy for not putting enough e-stamps on his e-mail.
Technically it's the sound some asshole makes when he falls into yout killfile.
I got it from my boss, Greg Laskin, who use to hold the garbage can up to the phone when talking to vendors:
"(THUNK) Hear that? That's your product going in the trash. Get me a propeer manual and we MIGHT use it" and of course the manual showed up the next day.
Greg ran gryphon.com which was the first UNIX/PC on usenet (MS 286 xenix actually).
MY BROTHER SHOWED ME THIS ARTILE AND IT'S NOT WRIGHT!! THERE NEVER WAS A BIFF FILTER!! (HAH! LIKE ONE WOULD RUN ON MY VIC20!) IT WAS ALL JUST TYPED IN BY ME AND MY BIG BROTHER WHO HAS ONE OF THOSE AWSOME C64'S!!!
HOPE THIS HELPS!
-- BIFF BIFF@BIT.NET -- BIFF BIFF@BIT.NET Wiki is wrong. What a shock.
To understand BIFF you need to have met Joe Talmadge and have hung out in talk.bizarre in the late 80s. Joe made up a raft of characters to, uh, sympatehetically reapond to various soc.singles morons. There was _SYSTEMS ADMINISITRATOR MAN_ (whose tights always chafed). There was Steve Supportive (soc.singles reader for 3 years!) a raft of others, and BIFF. BIFF was the prototypical noob and various people kept BIFF alive for a few years - Joe only posted at BIFF 2 or 3 times. I posted as BIFF about a dozen times, but never used numbers instead of letters, it was Rob Clark of PSU that did that and the little fuckwit taught half his school howe to forge posts so there were lots of dorky BIFF postings after that and I gave up.
In summary: you had to be there. But you wern't born yet.
If Joe Talmadge were here he'd flame your mother and ask for your sisters phone number.
My parents (we're british, live in Canada) bought me season 2 for xmas. They've watched it faithfully (and know I have no time for TV) and say season 3 is weak. The missing character (Jeff) and change of writers make it so. Try season 2 and 1.
Probably the funniest thing on TV ever that didn't have the pythons in it.
Yeah. I've only been programming computers since 1970 and have owned pretty much ever home computer since the apple iie, so I havn't been using computerd for very long.
I've used PCs ad a desktop machine since about 89 or so (and hated switching from my Amiga) and have got used to their nonsense.
I was forced to use a G4 iMac last summer for 2 weeks and found it to be a nice and reliable BSD box for all intents and purposes. Since BSD is mostly what I use I found it a really nice consumer BSD box ifinitly more reliable and easy to use that winbloze. I don't play games, I work for a living and I'r rather use a G3 iMac than any PC, although would obviously prefer a G5.
I will not be buying any more PC's, ever. They don't seem to actually work.
If anyone, however, has the capabilities to raise a well equipped military they are it. Toyota and BMW can undoubtedly produce military caliber vehicles in no time
Lest people think that these days porn is half the net... it always was, and in a sense you could argue pr0n drove the development of the net like any good student of the human animal would assume it would.
Until 1995 the UUCP network had more nodes than the TCP/IP connected internet. What did the UUCP network carry? News and mail. That's it. That's all you could do with UUCP (modulo some half baked ftp by mail schemes). Before uu.net became the first commercial backbone, UUCP traffic was shuttled site to site by "some guy you knew" who gave you a feed, and at either 1200 or 2400 baud (no, I'm not kidding) but when uu.net came out you could BUY a DECENT feed and by Dod use Telebit Trailblazer modems at 19.2K. But who would pay $400 a month to get usenet?
Engineering managers addicted to porn, that's who. "We need it for technical reasons. We cannot do our work without it" always worked. As long as we found them porn, they'd pay for talk.bizarre.
Having created alt.sex by mistake one day I really think uunet's Rick Adams, uunet's founder, should have given me some sort of profit sharing.
Oh well, that's how you can tell internet pioneers, they're the ones with the arrows in their feet.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. And for exacly that reason.
It's there. See "first commercial spam" on the same line as "first mass spamming".
Found the J. Dahlmer post yet?
The page is slashdotted? OMG. Pardon me while I turn my useent history webserver off. If you pricks find this I won't be able to get email for a month.
That's not actually the first one. When I made it up I had to explain to the fucktard I was flaming what it meant; the true first *plonk* post has this explanation.
What was I doing up at 4:21 am? Uh, never mind. Maybe this is why I havn't had a job since all useent archives went online.
I blame society.
First *plonk* was me circa 1988 or 1989. It would have been talk.bizare x-posted to alt.flame.
I think it was the one where I flamed some guy for not putting enough e-stamps on his e-mail.
Technically it's the sound some asshole makes when he falls into yout killfile.
I got it from my boss, Greg Laskin, who use to hold the garbage can up to the phone when talking to vendors:
"(THUNK) Hear that? That's your product going in the trash. Get me a propeer manual and we MIGHT use it" and of course the manual showed up the next day.
Greg ran gryphon.com which was the first UNIX/PC on usenet (MS 286 xenix actually).
HI! I AM BIFF!
MY BROTHER SHOWED ME THIS ARTILE
AND IT'S NOT WRIGHT!! THERE NEVER
WAS A BIFF FILTER!! (HAH! LIKE ONE
WOULD RUN ON MY VIC20!) IT WAS ALL
JUST TYPED IN BY ME AND MY BIG BROTHER
WHO HAS ONE OF THOSE AWSOME C64'S!!!
HOPE THIS HELPS!
--
BIFF
BIFF@BIT.NET
--
BIFF
BIFF@BIT.NET
Wiki is wrong. What a shock.
To understand BIFF you need to have met Joe Talmadge and have hung out in talk.bizarre in the late 80s. Joe made up a raft of characters to, uh, sympatehetically reapond to various soc.singles morons. There was _SYSTEMS ADMINISITRATOR MAN_ (whose tights always chafed). There was Steve Supportive (soc.singles reader for 3 years!) a raft of others, and BIFF. BIFF was the prototypical noob and various people kept BIFF alive for a few years - Joe only posted at BIFF 2 or 3 times. I posted as BIFF about a dozen times, but never used numbers instead of letters, it was Rob Clark of PSU that did that and the little fuckwit taught half his school howe to forge posts so there were lots of dorky BIFF postings after that and I gave up.
In summary: you had to be there. But you wern't born yet.
If Joe Talmadge were here he'd flame your mother and ask for your sisters phone number.
"Exactly what does BBC have that CBC doesn't?"
Money. And a better sense of humor. And speghetti trees.
My parents (we're british, live in Canada) bought me season 2 for xmas. They've watched it faithfully (and know I have no time for TV) and say season 3 is weak. The missing character (Jeff) and change of writers make it so. Try season 2 and 1.
Probably the funniest thing on TV ever that didn't have the pythons in it.
"MY god it's a penis"
"It's a snake"
"Same thing"
Some real world power costs here in Ontario.
A comtemporary PC costs $9/mo to run 24x7.
A sun E4500 costs $80/mo.
"I thought LED's pretty much lasted forever (~20 years)"
How old are you? I have monitors in use that are (well) over 20 years old.
20 years is only "forever" if you're under 30.
"Google doesn't cache pictures, people! It never has"
It did for a (short) while. They fired the guy last February that asked to buy more disk drives so they could do so again.
Yeah, sex rocks. Take some time this holiday season to appreciate the wonders of sex!
This is slashdot. You need to add "...with somebody else".
You were able to do that on Macs sience 1985
Yes, but not well. I've been saying macs are crap since they came out and yes I've used them all.
OSX changed all that.
XP never crashes on me
Let me send you my scanner...
"Macs are good for "new to computers" people"
Yeah. I've only been programming computers since 1970 and have owned pretty much ever home computer since the apple iie, so I havn't been using computerd for very long.
I've used PCs ad a desktop machine since about 89 or so (and hated switching from my Amiga) and have got used to their nonsense.
I was forced to use a G4 iMac last summer for 2 weeks and found it to be a nice and reliable BSD box for all intents and purposes. Since BSD is mostly what I use I found it a really nice consumer BSD box ifinitly more reliable and easy to use that winbloze. I don't play games, I work for a living and I'r rather use a G3 iMac than any PC, although would obviously prefer a G5.
I will not be buying any more PC's, ever. They don't seem to actually work.
Of course mars has dangerous stuff on it. Why do you think they put it so far away?
I got pretty good meaning from it by just staring at it. It's usefull.
What exactly do you want to know from it that you can't discern?
Schwartz's blog may not be representative of the general corporate attitude at Sun, but he comes across as bitter and even hostile.
He's a programmer. You're lucky he cleaned up that well for a photo.
Beware of smiling programmers.
Two solutions:
1) UUCP mail. ihnp4 anybody?
2) Run your own mailserver.
That is because you don't have as many niggers
Yes we do. But we're nice to them.
If anyone, however, has the capabilities to raise a well equipped military they are it. Toyota and BMW can undoubtedly produce military caliber vehicles in no time
Yeah but it'll leak oil and rust within a year.
Paypal is YOUR money.
That you use THEIR service to send to somebody you want to pay. Don't like it? Don't use it.
You're bound by their terms, which can change any time. Don't like it? Don't use it.
It's absolutley not illegal to do what they're doing. Fucking stupid and cheesy, but not illegal.
Lest people think that these days porn is half the net... it always was, and in a sense you could argue pr0n drove the development of the net like any good student of the human animal would assume it would.
Until 1995 the UUCP network had more nodes than the TCP/IP connected internet. What did the UUCP network carry? News and mail. That's it. That's all you could do with UUCP (modulo some half baked ftp by mail schemes). Before uu.net became the first commercial backbone, UUCP traffic was shuttled site to site by "some guy you knew" who gave you a feed, and at either 1200 or 2400 baud (no, I'm not kidding) but when uu.net came out you could BUY a DECENT feed and by Dod use Telebit Trailblazer modems at 19.2K. But who would pay $400 a month to get usenet?
Engineering managers addicted to porn, that's who. "We need it for technical reasons. We cannot do our work without it" always worked. As long as we found them porn, they'd pay for talk.bizarre.
Having created alt.sex by mistake one day I really think uunet's Rick Adams, uunet's founder, should have given me some sort of profit sharing.
Oh well, that's how you can tell internet pioneers, they're the ones with the arrows in their feet.