When I was 15, I configured a Waffle BBS system to act as a mail application and Usenet newsreader:
- In the middle of the night, a mechanical lamp timer would turn on my 286 computer.
- AUTOEXEC.BAT would detect the time, and run a separate batch file.
- This batch file would run a UUCP application. My 2400 baud modem would call Lake Systems, a private dial-up UNIX system run by the sysadmin of Marquette University, and download a payload of mail and news.
- In the morning, I was free to read rec.humor.funny without the bother of busy signals or slow modem throughput.
In order to set up this Rube Goldberg contraption, I needed to register as a host. Scanning my soda can- and candybar wrapper-littered desk, I fixed upon a half-eaten white chocolate bar, and chose my hostname.
Alpine.
Twenty-one years later, an anonymous software engineer pulled together various digital artifacts to create a multiplayer game for his son.
Tonight, while playing that game, I ran into my 15-year-old self.
The Hidden World Of Star Wars Stormtroopers
This must have taken a lot of dedication:
(Source: runt-of-the-web)
MoTD : EGFR mutations and you
Well actually not for me. Although people and especially smokers should be aware of the term. There is so much info out there for cancer… Makes you sad that here patients are treated like dead people and don’t get the sometimes life saving information
