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finger, the father of blog This thought (hardly a breakthrough correlation, but a bit of history for the kids) came to mind while playing a game of Doom 3. I was pondering what Carmack's perception of the release has been, and that reminded me that for years Carmack, and most other big industry names, kept up to date finger entries that were basically diaries, ruminations of programming, the industry, etc. Basically exactly the role that blog fills today.
Dennis Forbes
Dude, you spend too much time on this forum.
Angel
Dennis Forbes? He's harmless. Did a little too much LDS in the sixties.
Captain Kirk
LDS?
worthless old hippie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092007/quotes
Captain Kirk
LDS - drug of choice for dyslexics.
dexlysia
Yeah. I overdosed on the Latter Day Saints the other day. A couple of 'em stopped by my house and wanted to chat about God and such. Silly kids!
SW
Sally was the user name of our sysadmin in college. Like some pre-Bevis/Butthead scenario, we used to say
heh-heh
When dyslexic addicts trip out, do they see Dog?
Edward
Trivia?
muppet
Finger ....
Michael Moser
Finger was notoriously unsecure on some unix platforms. One of the first things I'd do when setting up a unix box was disable finger.
old_timer
Tnanks for the Star-Trek link. I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing this scenario soon with our kids:
Stephen Jones
C0mpuS3rve 0wns joo!
L33t Hax0r
Ahh, but you forgot the part where Scotty, despite using a computer with a voice interface all of his life is able to type approximately 100WPM using a keyboard he's never seen.
Steve Barbour
Oddly enough, the database table that stores my blog is named "finger" as a nod to history. My finger file went away when I discovered the web, back in the days of lynx and modems and before the September That Never Ended when all of you other folks found out about it.
Flamebait Sr.
>>> Don't get me started on Scotty's knowledge of the either the keyboard commands for a CAD package he'd never seen, or his ability to code a CAD package from scratch in about 10 seconds on a computer he'd never seen.
Ward
How's this to tie this thread together:
pb_canuck
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