Quote:
|
it's the cluttering of the world's internet that I object to.
|
And it's not only the internet. I happened across a book on Amazon this morning whose Product Details contained this line:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,537,048 in Books
Quote:
|
Yes, I started on the internet before 1992
|
Wow. That is impressive, given that I started in September or October that year (my grad student daughter had dial-up access to the university computer, and I hijacked her account) and there was virtually nothing out there! CERN. The University of Manchester library catalog (when I was a student at Manchester, the catalog was a series of printed volumes with handwritten addenda), and I think the Library of Congress, though that may have come later. There was email, of course. I loved email, though my first few had to be virtual tweets since I could only write in the subject line. I had to email one of my daughter's classmates, and she sent the query on to a friend at University College Cork, who kindly explained what I was doing wrong, or rather wasn't doing. The email utility was PINE, which I was told meant Pine Is Not Elm. Even then, computer boffins delighted in being obscure.