Link weirdness.

Its Babylon 5, its Star Trek, its a parody, its in Finnish! (with English subtitles)
Star Wreck

And a non-Lucas Star Wars film.

Star Wars
Revelations

Rejected SCA classes

(from a Society for Creative Anachronism mailing list I'm on)

Rejected Classes for Atlantian University
By Baron Marcellus and Baroness Belphoebe, Ponte Alto

16. Documenting your Chain Mail Bikini
15. Creative Shadow Puppets for Period Pavillions
14. Papier Mache Bucklers
13. Cooking your 12th Night Feast with Col. Sanders
12. Period Leeching Practicum
11. Spiffing your Viking Apron Dress with Gold Lame
10. Fun with Hemlock (Pages Academy Track)
9. 101 Uses for your White Scarf
8. Concert for Bagpipes, Crumhorn, Doumbek and Maracas
7. Greensleeves: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Macarena
6. Chastity Belts for the Beginning Armorer
5. One on One Melee Tactics
4. Mime in Period, The Silent Killer
3. 15 Minute Meads
2. Calligraphy with Crayola

And the number one rejected University Class Proposal:

1. Executioner Period Techniques: A Hands On Class

Andre Norton

Sci-fi and fantasy author Norton dies

Toucha, toucha, touch me

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I'm pure as the snow

... The driven upon snow, that is.

Purity test
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History...

While reading someone else's LJ, a comment of theirs got me to thinking.

I've been on the Internet for around 20 years. And, if I recall correctly, it was in March of 1981 that I got my first modem. (I still have one of the same model, simply for the sake of boggling newbies).

So I've been online for 24 years.

I want you to try to picture this. My system had cost $1000 *before* adding things like extra RAM, a serial port and a modem (and a serial port wasn't standard then!).

It was a TRS-80 Model III. Z-80 CPU at 2(?) MHz. 16k of RAM (which I expanded to the max of 48k as soon as I could). Yes *k*, not meg.

Storage was cassette tapes at 1500 baud. The display was monochrome with 16 lines of 64 characters. Graphics resolution was 128x48.

When I went online, there were two BBS systems in Portland. I got their numbers from Byte magazine. The *national* BBS list took up only one page. And the print wasn't super small.

The modem was 300 baud. I had to dial the phone, and when I heard the modem on the other end answer, flip the toggle switch on the modem from Off to Originate.

I want you youngsters to try to imagine when that was state of the art in home computers...

I got onto CompuServe a bit later and stayed on it until 1994 or so.

I got onto the Internet sometime around 1985.

I have to wonder what it'll be like in another 20 years?