The continuation of Eternal September has nothing to do with AOL. Google Groups effectively killed Usenet as soon as they started offering posting access while doing nothing to educate new users on exactly what Usenet is. Google Groups is now the source of the vast majority of current Usenet spam, the service is pretty much broken, and since it isn't a potential revenue stream, Google all but ignores it.
Not only did the Mac Plus not have a hard drive, the 800k floppy drive it did have was notoriously fickle and unreliable, often killing more than a few disks on its way to the hardware graveyard.
When I had the chance to clean out (and keep whatever I wanted from) a storage container full of discarded educational hardware (mostly Macs from the Plus era up to the IIsi era), I learned very quickly that Pluses were pretty much a waste of time to haul home, especially when the modular-plug keyboard (this was pre-ADB) was dead as well.
Ted Turner had nothing to do with the AOL/Time-Warner merger. By 2000 (Time-Warner absorbing Turner Broadcasting had happened several years before), Turner had his stock and very little say in what the company did.
...going to be an image of "a greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash...and a man's arm holding on to the leash extended out to her shoving a black glove in her face to sniff it"?
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The continuation of Eternal September has nothing to do with AOL. Google Groups effectively killed Usenet as soon as they started offering posting access while doing nothing to educate new users on exactly what Usenet is. Google Groups is now the source of the vast majority of current Usenet spam, the service is pretty much broken, and since it isn't a potential revenue stream, Google all but ignores it.
Not only did the Mac Plus not have a hard drive, the 800k floppy drive it did have was notoriously fickle and unreliable, often killing more than a few disks on its way to the hardware graveyard. When I had the chance to clean out (and keep whatever I wanted from) a storage container full of discarded educational hardware (mostly Macs from the Plus era up to the IIsi era), I learned very quickly that Pluses were pretty much a waste of time to haul home, especially when the modular-plug keyboard (this was pre-ADB) was dead as well.
Ted Turner had nothing to do with the AOL/Time-Warner merger. By 2000 (Time-Warner absorbing Turner Broadcasting had happened several years before), Turner had his stock and very little say in what the company did.
...going to be an image of "a greased, naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash...and a man's arm holding on to the leash extended out to her shoving a black glove in her face to sniff it"?
Version 2.4.3 was released in near-record time to fix the ICQ problem in 2.4.2. http://www.pidgin.im/
No big deal, since any mp3 192k or better converts to AAC in iTunes just fine.
There are only 500 children in Thailand?
Well, they *did* just catch JonBenet Ramsey's killer there...