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What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« on: October 31, 2019, 09:57:22 AM »
Why wasn't there a notification of this event?!! :wallbash:
    Who was "on watch"?! :nono:
          What did they know and when?!!! :Thinking:
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2019, 10:18:02 AM »
My researcher tells me it crashed immediately. It's the history that's still repeating itself...  :toothgrin:


But what could it have been...  :whistling:
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2019, 01:34:46 PM »
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It's the history that's still repeating itself.
Quite so, only the length of the cycle seems to change. :wallbash: :doh: But that's not exactly the event I'm writing about. :p
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system
CAUTION! Childhood vaccinations cause adults! :yes:

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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2019, 03:37:50 PM »
My memory fails me, Jim. Please tell us.
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2019, 05:02:58 PM »
I guess many here are too young and assume things have "always been this way"! :p Others, like me, are having enough trouble just remembering what day of the week it might be! :blush:

According to this story at Fast Design, the Internet was first used on October 29, 1969 around 10:29 pm PT! 50 years old!!! :WOW:
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Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system
CAUTION! Childhood vaccinations cause adults! :yes:

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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2019, 06:04:38 PM »
I didn't know that Al Gore was old to enough (at that time) to invent it!  :rofl:
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2019, 07:25:07 PM »
Our school in Shallow Water, Kansas sponsored a donkey basketball game about that time. Lotsa laughs!
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2019, 11:55:27 AM »
Mr. Gore actually graduated from Harvard just a few months earlier. But he did not study Computer Science and was not involved in creating the code that allowed the Internet to become a reality. :nono:

I would advise everyone to take what some one says, especially if they are talking as a politician, with several grains of salt. Unfortunately, some people don't seem to understand how to use a powerful tool like the web to do some 'fact-checking' before they hit the Send button... :wallbash:
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
Those that use metric = #1 Measurement system
And the United States = The Banana system
CAUTION! Childhood vaccinations cause adults! :yes:

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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2019, 12:55:19 PM »
I recall reading that Abraham Lincoln warned that you should not believe everything that you read on the Internet.
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2019, 04:12:00 PM »
Perhaps he was omniscient? A rare trait in politicians, as well as many other groups...
THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF COUNTRIES
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Re: What Happened 50 Years and Two Days Ago?!
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2019, 09:48:27 AM »
I was only 14 so it wasn't my fault!  :p
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