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

[Antony Barry]

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). Records went at 78rpm and shattered if you dropped them. The  
radio was a major piece of furniture playing the "Lawsons" and "Much  
Binding in the Marsh". After the ABC news delivered by very toffy  
British accents there followed "..crackle..pop.. This is London  
Calling..".

Were you an Argonaut by any chance? I wasn't much to my uncle Keith  
Barry's <http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130147b.htm>  
disappointment.

Tony

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