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January 2nd 2009, 12:56 PM #1
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Male - ChristianAncient Email uncovered
Recently Unearthed E-Mail Reveals What Life Was Like In 1995
KNOXVILLE, TN—A 1995 e-mail extracted from the hard drive of a recently unearthed Compaq desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society, said the archaeologists responsible for its discovery.
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"It shows that these forgotten people of the '90s had many of the same concerns as modern man, such as b-days, and slow periods at work," Caspari said. "The presence of the archaic slang verbalization 'what's up' appears to indicate that they cared about the immediate welfare of others in their closely knit community, much as we do today."
But the artifact reveals differences as well. According to Caspari, the find indicates that people from that era spoke a much earlier form of e-mail language alien to our own, employing the full spellings of most words, and lacking the versatility and advanced expression of smiley-face or frowny-face emoticons.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48970
Just think, one day an archeologist will find this thread and be amazed.
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January 2nd 2009, 01:08 PM #2
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I was certain this thread had something to do with Mossy...you disappoint me, Sparko.
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January 2nd 2009, 01:33 PM #3
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Male - ChristianRe: Ancient Email uncovered
I am sure it was Mossy's computer that they unearthed.
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January 3rd 2009, 07:59 PM #4
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1995? Meh. RTT had already been online for a decade.
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January 3rd 2009, 09:05 PM #5
HAHA!
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I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea there was such a thing as the internet in 1995. No YouTube, no TheologyWeb, no Wikipedia, none of that existed in 1995. Hard to believe the Internet existed back then!
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January 3rd 2009, 09:47 PM #6
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Just imagine surfing the internet with a text-only browser (Lynx).
Originally posted by MetalMark
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January 3rd 2009, 09:53 PM #7
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January 3rd 2009, 10:18 PM #8
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January 3rd 2009, 10:22 PM #9
HAHA!
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Originally posted by mossrose
Call me Mark. I like sarcasm and the surreal.
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January 7th 2009, 02:44 PM #10
Another nice mess...
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Male - ChristianRe: Ancient Email uncovered
I prefer Links myself since it does a better job of maintaining page formatting. Originally posted by One Bad Pig
Just imagine surfing the internet with a text-only browser (Lynx).
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January 11th 2009, 02:54 PM #11
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I love the onion.
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January 11th 2009, 03:21 PM #12
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I bet computers, old and new, consider themselves lucky to be living in the same time period as Mossy. I know I do. Originally posted by mossrose
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Then Morgoth turned upon Húrin, and he said: 'Fool, little among Men, and they are the least of all that speak! Have you seen the Valar, or measured the power of Manwë and Varda?
Do you know the reach of their thought? Or do you think, perhaps, that their thought is upon you, and that they may shield you from afar?'
'I know not,' said Húrin. 'Yet so it might be, if they willed. For the Elder King shall not be dethroned while Arda endures.'
The Words of Húrin and Morgoth, "The Children of Húrin" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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January 11th 2009, 04:33 PM #13
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Female - ChristianRe: Ancient Email uncovered
Originally posted by Beren Erchamion
I bet computers, old and new, consider themselves lucky to be living in the same time period as Mossy. I know I do.
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