So, where have these tax protesters been for the past eight years? You know, when Bush went six years without vetoing a single spending bill? When Bush blew a $230 billion budget surplus in his first year and then signed us up for an extra $3,000,000,000,000 of debt? It was fine to spend money on bombs for the past eight years but once Obama got this economy dumped in his lap suddenly it’s his fault.
Sorry, teabaggers: you’re eight years too late.
I overheard a conversation in the office this morning about first email addresses. One guy says he once had an email address without an @. That’s old-school, for sure.
My first personal email address was jmturner at eos dot ncsu dot edu, which I picked up back in 1992. The one I probably used the most at the time though was the Compuserve account of Pioneer Software (a.k.a. Q+E Software). It was something like 71333.xxxx at compuserve dot com. I was managing the company’s technical support forum on Compuserve from 1992 to 1994.
Right now I can’t picture the client I used for Compuserve. I think the client was originally a text-based terminal, though later I recall CS came out with a GUI front-end once Windows became established. This was in the days before the Web became publicly available (though UNC’s ibiblio was already serving web pages as one of the first webservers in the world.
Dang, I’m old.
