[Artemisia] the dreaded and horrible circlets...

[LadyPDC at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/20/2008 10:02:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
connor.mac.michil at gmail.com writes:

Conchobhar .... no, really, Mike (who, for as young as he thinks he is  ...
was on Compuserve before they invented GIF and used it when they used  commas
in the user numbers, had one of the first 1000 accounts on  Prodigy,
remembers when USENET started, and at age 10 had an ARPANET  bang-path
connection on the Apple ][+ ... crap, I'm getting  old)



Please stop ....  you are making me feel ancient.  I had an  earlier number 
on Compuserve than you because I joined when they first came out  and offered 
"specials" if you would just give them a try.    
 
I would note that those on AOL bottom post most often because that is what  
it does automatically.  I have always been confused by the top/bottom thing  
too, so I usually just reply in what ever manner the post was sent, assuming  
that this is what the sender reads most easily or prefers.  
 
And then I could mention all the money I gave to Compuserve, AOL, etc  before 
they all went to a flat monthly fee and back when they charged you per  
minute.  Of course I also remember  one of the first dot matrix  printers ever 
seen, almost the size of a small room and so slow by today's  standard but boy did 
it look and sound fast then.  I tell our end users who  complain about a slow 
running speed about our first business computer which took  two minutes 
between screens and we thought that was screaming fast.  Now 2  seconds between 
screens means your machine is shutting down.
 
Think I will go back to typing on the old manual typewriters, just to feel  
fast again.
 
(should I mention that they taught me telephone reception at high school on  
a real switchboard - the kind you used to see on the comedy shows where you  
pulled cords in and out of a board full of holes?  Or that I first learned  to 
call my mother's office from my home by asking the operator for her company  
name and to connect me with "Linda"?   Yes it was a small town in  Wyoming, but 
I still feel very old)
 
 
Mistress Constance de la Rose, OL
Barony of Loch  Salann
Kingdom of Artemisia



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