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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snipped stuff about the BBS scene and my game, Planet Busters> Well we are at an intergame point again, if you have an interest in playing this blast from the past (and possibly trouncing me at (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | The first smiley?
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Possibly apocryphal, possibly not really the first but an interesting story of computer archeaology nontheless: (URL) got the URL from an old IBMers mailing list I am on) I don't think it has anything to do with MS other than that's where the story (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Robert L. Forward 1932-2002
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Robert L. Forward 1932-2002 Robert Forward, physicist, might be known to you as the author of Dragon's Egg (1987), a hard sf novel in which humans communicate with accelerated lifeforms on the surface of a neutron star and affect their history. SFWA (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Switch LEGO Style
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Stumbled across this while reading my Mac news sites. Not hilarious, but amusing: (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: The ultimate computer peripheral
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(...) Now that's dissapointing...how can Hubzilla wreak havok upon the Disneyland Indiana Jones figure that lives on my desk? Still damn funny though. Matt (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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