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    Cellphone

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    Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and…

  • eBay, part the third

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    Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…

  • Where the Internet Began

    Where the Internet Began

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    I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies……

  • Online

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    Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended…

  • G4

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    Purely for the entertainment value, today I’m installing weird operating systems on my 17-inch 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. I briefly had MorphOS, the AmigaOS-alike offering, installed. I installed MorphOS via the…

  • RTFM

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    Last evening I got a note from ebay stating that the buyer of the motherboard I recently sold wants a refund because it doesn’t work… The note the buyer included…