2 Apr 2022

And Then, By Way Of A Test, An Old One…

     Well, so, I ran Open Live Writer and for reasons not yet fully understood, it opened with a full screen width text editor. Thus this test to see wot it formats as when I hit Publish. 
   By way of this test, here’s something from way back I ran into while cleaning out some folders. The originator?
Reggie's Dæmons Thank you from before.

   After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
  
Not to be outdone by the French, in the weeks that followed, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
   A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Northern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in the Skipton area of North Yorkshire in 2011, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught local amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely bugger all. Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."

Quote;  Ted Nelson.

“Any fool can use a computer. Many do.”

2 comments:

  1. Mac,
    For some reason I'm reminded of the old Dr. Seuss computer poem.

    http://www.skywriting.net/inspirational/humor/seuss_computer_poem.html

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  2. Ripper,
    Thanks for the reminder. Sure I posted that way back in the mists of time but it'll go up again tonight for sure.

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