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Article #374Re: courtesy titles
From: Emas Refugee
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:11
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:11
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Simon Brooke <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message news:<eori9-k4f.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk>... > Emas Refugee wrote: > > > Craig Cockburn <craig@SiliconGlen.com> wrote in message > > news:<NarIeaCjsAx9EwFM@SiliconGlen.com>... > >> I just wrote this out of frustration with user hostile websites, > >> comments welcome > >> > >> http://www.siliconglen.com/culture/courtesytitles.html > > > > I'd love to see you explain this bit: > > > > "I've been on the Internet in the UK since 1983." > > What's odd about that? I've been using the Internet in the UK for seventeen > years now, and I'm not one of the pioneers. Craig was an undergraduate at Edinburgh University in 1983 and his access would have been to JANET and the EMAS system then in use. The Internet at that time was only available through the gateway at (I think) UCL. I was just wondering how Craig got such access to such wonderful facilities.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f88e4,85063489114257e4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf88e4,public X-Google-Thread: 109765,85063489114257e4 X-Google-Attributes: gid109765,public X-Google-Thread: 105844,85063489114257e4 X-Google-Attributes: gid105844,public X-Google-Thread: 10bbc3,85063489114257e4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bbc3,public X-Google-Thread: f5142,85063489114257e4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5142,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-05 00:11:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: emas_a@lycos.co.uk (Emas Refugee) Newsgroups: uk.comp.misc,soc.culture.british,scot.general,ed.general,uk.local.lothians Subject: Re: courtesy titles Date: 5 Nov 2002 00:11:50 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 22 Message-ID: <98f13f40.0211050011.63e6a5e9@posting.google.com> References: <OeUMdJHurdu9EwM4@SiliconGlen.com> <NarIeaCjsAx9EwFM@SiliconGlen.com> <98f13f40.0211040801.7ce3ab94@posting.google.com> <eori9-k4f.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.153.45.54 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1036483910 786 127.0.0.1 (5 Nov 2002 08:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 2002 08:11:50 GMT