From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Gnomus covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends   
   in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >In article , Ned Ludd   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:   
   >> > Ned Ludd  once tried to test me. I ate their   
   >> > liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >> >   
   >> >>> I'm 38 and have been into computing since the early 80's, but social   
   >> >>> networking just makes me shiver with horror. The idea is nice but I   
   >> >>> just can't trust anything so explicitly marketing driven. :(   
   >> >> My first program ran in December, 1969.  The program was written in   
   >> >> assembly language, and punched into cards.  Not many kids learning   
   >> >> programming in Jr. High back then.   
   >> >   
   >> > Luxury....I first ran a programme (see how that should be spelt?) back   
   >> > in 1872 on Charles Babbage's computer, which was so unreliable that it   
   >> > fell over every other computation (or every other day) if it never got   
   >> > oiled! It was a remarkable bit of code..   
   >> >   
   >> > 10 print "hello"   
   >> > 20 goto 10   
   >> >   
   >> > And if you told the kids today, they wouldn't believe you!   
   >>   
   >> ... and they shouldn't.  That kind of "remarkable" code wasn't invented   
   >> until 1964.   
   >>   
   >> The first working machine built on Babbage's design was constructed in   
   >> 1989.  I don't believe there are any compilers for it.   
   >>   
   >> But hey, it's a good yarn.   
   >   
   >If POD says he did it, then he did it.   
      
   Probably something to do with time travel and alternate universes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)