Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:15:36 -0000, "Paul Blay"
> <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
> 
> 
> >On the other hand 
> >http://homepage3.nifty.com/takja/whatis.htm
> >surely only a Japanese web designer would include a street map
> >done in Ascii Art.
> 
> Obviously someone who has been with nifty from the beginning.
> 
> Anyone else remember the bad ole days when they thought niftyserve was
> the internet and couldn't quite figure out why what you were seeing
> didn't jibe with what you kept hearing about?

And sending files to a client's Nifty address required you to rent one
yourself to use their "special" file protocol. I swear it would have
been faster to use the phone to dictate the translation letter-by-letter
instead.

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