I was discussing this with @selentelechia a month ago maybe, and she noticed it.
She's almost a decade younger and I think that makes a difference in this matter
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Dialing onto Gopher in maybe first or second grade before www was live and looking for information about categories of stars (I didn't understand the papers that Veronica returned)
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parents talking about the USSR's dissolution on the way to Church and making fun of me for not knowing what a communist was A political cartoon of Bush I Seeing teevee programs about AIDS
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The first time I recall reading http://CNN.com was during the bombings in 98. I wanted to know what was going on. The politics came more quickly after that I had a subscription to Foreign Affairs by 2000 or so (asked for it for Christmas)
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2000 was wonderful. The millenium and all of that. It was easy to be hopeful. I had a hard time going to bed the night the digit flipped, after nothing bad actually happened with Y2k. I was so excited about what might happen next in the world
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Maybe everyone here had a childhood like that growing up. Long summers playing Civ 2 and SimCity and MoO2--just building worlds in your mind with an assist from the CRT
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Of course we'll bundle our MorganNet software with the new network nodes; our customers expect no less of us. We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good that no one feels the need to compete with us. -- CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
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Replying to @gigafelon @eigenrobot
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information for in his heart he dreams himself your master." Commissioner Pravin Lal, U.N. Declaration of Rightspic.twitter.com/ZaqJlvt0g5
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