[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 174, Issue 41

[Adam Todd]

At 05:54 PM 25/05/2007, Antony Barry wrote:

>On 25/05/2007, at 1:14 PM, Stewart Fist wrote:
>
>>When I was a boy, we were so poor we didn't have WAIS, Archie and
>>Gopher ...
>>only Dialog and Orbit.
>
>C'mon Stewart, you can do better than that. When you and I were boys
>we had steam radio and encyclopedia Brittanica salesmen (never
>women).

What is an "Encyclopedia Brittanica Salemen"  ??

Is it like a Foxtel, door to door salesperson?

Or an Optus one?

Or an Energy Australia one?

Or an Austar one?