Oh. Have you talked to a grey-beard about users groups? Computer Chronicles was sort of like having a users group presentation in your living room every week. I learned about computers by users groups, computer chronicles, hanging out in computer stores and a few long distance phone calls to the bay area.
Stop it, you are making me nostalgic for a time i never completely lived through.
My first memories are of sitting on my father's lap as a 3y old, connecting to a BBS. Even as small as that I understood completely that was special. The interconnectedness of our society is now taking for granted, but man how special it was.
At least you got to experience the carol of the modem tones.
A few years ago I used the 1200 baud connect sequence as a phone ring tone. Everyone chuckled, my child asked "what the he'll was that, I think I heard it in a movie."
I heard that the YouTube channel isn't official and that watching them on Archive.Org is preferred. But they're not especially well organized on the Archive. Here's a link to a torrent with all the episodes, which might be a bit of overkill if you're just trying to find a single episode.
No, looks like it was started late in Obama's second term. As for the current guys, they would probably use Instrument Serif for body text if they could.
Went down a short rabbit hole from this comment and they actually are using a condensed serif font like that on www.whitehouse.gov titles at the moment.
That's just the State Department. The federal government is a huge amalgamation of agencies, each with its own set of goals, responsibilities, and quirks. Even down at the local level, I've had a hard time getting the county and the city to agree on who owns the storm drain where the neighborhood connects to the highway.
Meh. Seems like the author just doesn't want to have to remember to renew his certs. But I guess "standard tooling makes it harder than it should be for people focused on things other than renewing certs to easily figure out what they're supposed to do" is a valid critique. Suggestions for how to make things better would have been nice.
fwiw... this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354731 or more likely that link is a dupe of this one. It's encouraging enough people are interested in old systems that two people posted links to it in rapid succession.
Thx for posting this, I've had a weird love affair with the CC-40 since the 80s. In fact, there's one on my kitchen table at this very moment... [ See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38534700 ]
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies is offering a "rescue fellowship" to post-docs whose academic research has fallen from political favour in the United States.
Sure, but F2 is a bit more accurate: "As of February 2016 the IT-CsF2 cesium fountain clock started reporting a uB of 1.7 × 10−16 in the BIPM reports of evaluation of primary frequency standards." ( from https://web.archive.org/web/20220121090046/ftp://ftp2.bipm.o... )
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