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ah the good ol days!

My funniest BBS story: Got in to a flame war with the cosysop of a local board after uploading some text files. IIRC it was a big text file of jokes and he didn't like some of the jokes bc they were kinda racist (hey, it was the 90s) -- its not like I wrote the dang thing but it snowballed into a big back and forth until he eventually kicked me.

Then fast forward like a few months later. I'm in compsci class at high school talking about something with this older kid. He was from a different school in the county and would drive over just for CS class because his school didn't have an AP CS program. Then one of us must have said something and it suddenly clicked and we're both simultaneously pointing at each other like "you're that jackass from the BBS!"

Just imagine nowadays the likelihood of actually running in to some Internet stranger you get in a comment war with?!?

too true, but "dovremmo essere tutti antifascisti!" doesn't have much ooomph to it unfortunately.

Siamo tutti antifascisti!

I could never quite get too into the game because of such viciousness -- you really had to grind!

Hackaday is still pretty cool if you're into technogadgets and the like

so true, re: patience

I was just thinking back the other day about BBS days and how frustrating a busy signal could be, or connection time limits, etc.

is grad school an option?

not a solution to the problem as you presented it... but a solution none the less: You'll spend your time learning more, developing more skills, more opportunities for internships, networking, growth, etc. and hopefully when your done in a year or two the job market is better and you're entering at a high compensation level.

yes!!!

Looks like you submitted opposition to their new registration (Deepki) and then they retaliated by applying for cancellation to your existing mark (Deepkit)?

are they actually pursuing use of "Deepkit" or possibly did you just piss them off? Either way, I wouldn't expect to win anything going up these majors. Also, isn't clear there's any tangible benefit even if you were to win appeal.

surprised no mention of Craigslist? or is it not an "Internet artifact" because it remains in essentially its original form...?

"Alarmingly, a Department of Energy server allowed anonymous login with write access, raising the risk of hackers uploading malicious code or installing backdoors for persistent network access."

I sincerely hope that's a honeypot

I found it really hard to read this as I kept envisioning Alex P. Keaton interrupting, "but Mallory..." and then taking over the whole conversation after she stormed off upstairs.

sorta related: I remember first day of CS101 class circa 1998... professor starts off with question, "why are you here? why are you all here?"

After going around and replying "no" to a half dozen or so different individuals with increasingly philosophical responses he broke it down for us with, "you're all here because 60k! You're going to graduate with a computer science degree and make 60k a year!"

to even imagine that was supposed to be an inspiring number back then is pretty laughable. I was already making as much doing chinsy web dev stuff.

It was a different time for sure. There were no (or very few) laptops, you took notes on paper, you went to the computer labs to do work (with old sparcstations and such) or you remoted in to your shell and used emacs and gdb. Pretty simple times.

huh... never knew they were the same shop responsible for Lemmings. what an awesome bunch!