The Belt Onion club
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@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
Seriously, though, WhoTF are Currys?
They sell electronics and appliances.
Oh, good. I thought it was a nasty reference to Indians.
Not that anyone would ever do something like that. Well, other than that chain of electronics/appliance stores in the area where I lived many years ago, called "Tokyo Shapiro".
Tokyo = Japan = Electronics
Shapiro = Jewish = Cheap
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
That looks like somebody had been recently playing Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards when they came up with that verification system. I wonder if pressing Ctrl+Alt+X will get you past the questions.
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@Gurth now I have that theme song in my head, thaaaaaaanks.
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@Gurth Careful though!
"An increasing number of senior citizens have been disappearing online without a trace because they accidentally pressed the Alt and Del keys."
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Hold on. Star Wars: Episode1 - The Phantom Menace was released in May 16th 1999? That can't be. That was 25 years ago.
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@Zecc yup, there’s been 25th anniversary showings here, especially a couple of weeks ago for May 4th weekend.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
Hold on. Star Wars: Episode1 - The Phantom Menace was released in May 16th 1999? That can't be. That was 25 years ago.
Bah! A week from Saturday will be the 47th anniversary of of Episode IV — A New Hope. I was working full-time and taking night classes at college when it was released.
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Remember when the internet came on a floppy disk?
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@coderpatsy Using THE INTERNET for only $2.50 an hour!
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@coderpatsy oooh, free floppy disk!
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@Watson said in The Belt Onion club:
@coderpatsy Using THE INTERNET for only $2.50 an hour!
Before the WWW became widely used, CompuServe charged $6.00 an hour.
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And if you think that's expensive, remember that in some countries, you had to pay for the phone call itself in addition.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
And if you think that's expensive, remember that in some countries, you had to pay for the phone call itself in addition.
Even in the U.S., if you are using a "land line" it used to be that a call made to anywhere outside of the area served by your local phone company was considered a "long distance call" that incurs a per-minute charge.
It has only been in the last ~15 years, thanks to the widespread use of cellphones and "broadband Internet", that the concept of "long distance" phone calls has mostly gone away.
My first adventures with "Bulletin Board Systems" and my 300 baud Radio Shack modem, involved calling all over the country and running up significant phone bills.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Belt Onion club:
Even in the U.S., if you are using a "land line" it used to be that a call made to anywhere outside of the area served by your local phone company was considered a "long distance call" that incurs a per-minute charge.
Yeah, but I think the largest USA ISPs had a local Point of Presence in the area they served, didn't they?
Here, you had to pay for local calls as well. They were cheaper than national calls, but still expensive enough to get yelled at by your parents if you spent too much time online.
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docsigma2000: jesus christ man
docsigma2000: my son is sooooooo dead
c8info: Why?
docsigma2000: hes been looking at internet web sites in fucking EUROPE
docsigma2000: HE IS SURFING LONG DISTANCE
docsigma2000: our fucking phone bill is gonna be nuts
c8info: Ooh, this is bad. Surfing long distance adds an extra $69.99 to your bill per hour.
docsigma2000: ...!!!!!! FUCK FUCK FUCK
docsigma2000: is there some plan we can sign up for???
docsigma2000: cuz theres some cool stuff in europe, but i dun wanna pauy that much
c8info: Sorry, no. There is no plan. you'll have to live with it.
docsigma2000: o well, i ccan live without europe intenet sites.
docsigma2000: but till i figure out how to block it hes sooooo dead
c8info: By the way, I'm from Europe, your chatting long distance.
** docsigma2000 has quit (Connection reset by peer)
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Oh, there's a bash.org archive? Cool!