Is that a quote from a cookie?
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Per'aps eet ees more funny een Russian. |
Yes, I get that's how you pronounce it.
But why is it funny? |
It's a French version of "ghoti", or "ghoughpteighbteau".
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Back in the day, you connected to the Cellar system directly, via modem. Some modems were really fast while others took a good minute to fill a screen with characters.
All the messages scrolled past on the 25 row, 80 column terminals. After 25 rows, the scroll would stop and you'd get a [more] prompt. When you hit Enter the scroll would resume. But if you had a slow modem, you didn't need [more] prompts. So the "term" command would tell the system what speed you were at, so it would know whether to put in the prompt to stop the scroll. |
Oh, I see. Thanks!
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beep booop boop boopp beeep screeeeeeeweeeeeweeee
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I remember that noise. I didn't know anything about the cellar or bulletin boards back then but we were one of the first adopters of the interwebz in our area.
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Internet archeology. I feel old.
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As of 7:34 this morning, I cannot post pictures on the Cellar.
New pics, old pics, no pics. Posting text works fine. No pics. Restarted Firefox14. No pics. Rebooted. No pics. I will now try Explorer. |
I just tried it too and failed. Got an error message about temporary files.
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Since it's early, I thought maybe some updating, or upgrading might be taking place?
Haven't had any trouble anywhere else (other sites) this morning. The Cellar ails. |
Glad it's not just me, anyway.
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