 | | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999 —Richard Franks
| | | | (...) Semaphore flags would have been a faster means of communication earlier this afternoon! :) Richard (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Scheduled downtime: Monday, December 6, 1999 —Jasper Janssen
| | | | | (...) Don't you just love the semaphore system? It was ahead of it's time.. 20 years before the invention of the telegraph, they set up entire lines of semaphore stations. I've seen a minor one in France, part of the Paris-Lyon line. Tres cool. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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