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Posted by Triffid on 10/22/05 20:09
S.French made an ill-arranged sandwich with:
> From: "Bren" <bren20050@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: WinMx off the air?
> Date: Friday, October 21, 2005 9:52 AM
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> Triffid wrote:
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>> Still working my end. Running V1.8 on WfWg 3.11.
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> Your punchline in reply is falling on deaf ears, I'm afraid!
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> Most users on this echo have never heard of WFW!!
> Oh, give us 30-something's an ounce of credit. I thought the reference was
> hysterical; for all the right reasons, too.
>
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> I remember WFW (311 and 312) and I'm sure many of us also know what
> someone is referring to when the numbers "eighty-eighty-six" are
> carelessly tossed into a post, ostensibly attempting the same joke.
>
> Personally, when I refer to someone who "doesn't get it," though, I allude
> to the "Windows95 users in the back row" or (those fishes-in-barrells) the
> MacIntosh users.
>
> WFW, a Toshiba Satellite, WP5.1, PrintShop [Broderbund's] and a 9,600 baud
> modem got me through college, back in the days when you could actually
> stick it out on the same hw/sw config for your upper-classman years
> without feeling like an Amish dude on the Comdex tradeshow floor.
>
> Keep up the valid references and don't pander to an audience that can't
> figure out how to "Google" terms they don't immediately recognize.
>
>
:) Glad to fuel the flames of nostalgia - happier times when CPU speed could
be assessed by typing DIR or waiting for the cards to come out in Solitaire.
The summers were warmer, the winters were colder, and Bill Gates was the
good guy for taking on those brutes at IBM. 640K of RAM was as much as
anyone could possibly need, and the 5Mb HD on an XT was 'ample'. Oh, and you
were thinner then, and better in bed, remember?
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