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From: "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Eikaiwa party - Saturday - Jan. 29th 2005
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"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote ...
> "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?

I remember when bulletin boards were things you dialled up, 
information something you found via gopher, stuff could be found
lurking on obscure FTP servers, there were lurking text only green 
screen computer terminals hidden away like grandfathers who have 
been shuffled off to old-folks homes and students idea of fun was to 
use a loophole in the university's unix mainframes to get pornographic 
pictures popping up in the middle of other people's screens when 
they were working*

I can't say I ever heard of niftyserve.

* Well, or playing nethack.