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Save a life .... |
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End your own, the oxygen you use could be used by someone else, do the world a favour....
Or, just sponsor a lovely young lady and eryc member to run for charity.
- http://www.eryc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4210
Off you trot. |
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Life in 1995 |
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Recently Unearthed E-Mail Reveals What Life Was Like In 1995
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KNOXVILLE, TN—A 1995 e-mail extracted from the hard drive of a recently unearthed Compaq desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society, said the archaeologists responsible for its discovery.
"We're very excited by this find, because only by understanding our e-mail past can we hope to understand our e-mail present and future," said Northwestern University archaeology professor Lane Caspari, who has been leading the dig through the equipment storage area of a Knoxville-area credit union since late April, on Tuesday. "The discovery also sheds new light on the 1990s—an era we know very little about."
Written by a "scully666@compuserve.com" and addressed to a "makincopeez@prodigy.net," the writer expresses the ancient equivalent of boredom, asks the receiver about his or her status in their primeval office environment, then refers to the act of sending the e-mail itself.
"Nothing going on," begins the e-mail. "What's up with you? Are you going to Mike's b-day thing on Friday? I'm thinking about it. I might go, but I'm not sure yet."
The e-mail continues, "Let me know if you get this e-mail twice. I'm still trying to learn the system. I think the managers know when we're on the Net, so I'll stay away from the web surfing and check my e-mail only once a day."
The e-mail is signed only "K." It contains no subject line.
"It shows that these forgotten people of the '90s had many of the same concerns as modern man, such as b-days, and slow periods at work," Caspari said. "The presence of the archaic slang verbalization 'what's up' appears to indicate that they cared about the immediate welfare of others in their closely knit community, much as we do today."
But the artifact reveals differences as well. According to Caspari, the find indicates that people from that era spoke a much earlier form of e-mail language alien to our own, employing the full spellings of most words, and lacking the versatility and advanced expression of smiley-face or frowny-face emoticons.
Researchers were hoping that "Untitled 1995," as they've dubbed it, would help fill-in the long-sought missing link between the ancient e-mail world and the modern era. The Compaq's hard drive crashed shortly after the discovery, a more thorough study of the early writing is impossible. Only a paper copy of the e-mail remains.
"It was heartbreaking to see that hard drive die, but there was a certain tragic poetry to it, as well," Caspari said. "Few have ever had the privilege of receiving, first-hand, a beacon from our distant past, calling out to us across the sea time."
Neither e-mail address is active any longer, but their names may provide clues to long-forgotten events or important rulers of the time.
"Scully666' was likely a figure from these people's pantheon of god-figures," Caspari said. "'Makincopeez' is a reference lost to the ages."
Only four known e-mails pre-date this one, including a 1992 ASCII drawing of Star Trek's Mr. Spock, found by a group of Indian laborers salvaging precious metals from computer hardware in a Mumbai dump in 2004.
Caspari said it was "extraordinary" that the early e-mailers showed an awareness of the importance of their new tool.
"This clearly points to a reverence for the technology, but also an intense anxiety about a power they could not have understood," Caspari said. "It's safe to assume that 1995 was a terrifying and confusing time, and they must have struggled to make sense of it all."
While much work remains before researchers can hope to illuminate the secrets of the ancient and mysterious period of the late '90s, they say the discovery itself is an important milestone in understanding human history.
"Listening to the whir of the disc drive and watching the blink of the cursor, we glimpsed, for a moment, life through a completely different set of eyes," Caspari said. "But, in the end, we realized have more in common with our shadowy ancestors than we might like to think." |
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[Sale Now On] - eryc T-Shirts ... |
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have had a small delivery of eryc t-shirts, some have sold already and I have 6 left.
All size Large, grey t-shirts with a (new) design on the back.
I will take a picture as soon as I get a chance, but if you are interested PM me now!
£10 should cover it with postage.
Got these a "tester", see if there is interest, hopefully there will be and then we can knock some various stuff out.
Exciting.
edit -
Here be a piccy of the back.
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On the move again .... |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls,
eryc will/might go down for a few days as yet a-f**king-gain we have to move host.
I'm hoping the move will run smooooothly, hopefully no down-time, but there will be lost posts.
Once the site is setup on the new servers, I have to flick nameservers across, so there's gonna be a 24/48 hour gap where posts will probably vanish.
PM's included.
Hoping to get this all done from tomorrow and over the weekend. |
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Dangerous Dave's 21st ... |
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A few days later, the dust has settled....
If you haven't yet, feel free to add a later happy birthday courtesy of 'H'
- http://www.eryc.co.uk/forum/topic3905.html
So, Welcome to Man Hood Dave!
A Wicked Night was had, bruises and headaches in the morning.
Many, many thanks to Sector C (pleasure meeting you by the by), for turning up around lunch time in a strange house with strange people - Dave included, and helping setup the party, lending her precious air to balloons and inflatables.
Thank in you's too Wigs and Andy for helping with setup, and Hammond for a table.... which I had to pickup.... despite asking months ago for you n Wigs to sort it....
Cheers all for turning up, hope ya'll had a good night, enjoy the pictures.
- http://www.box.net/public/ml6xr64fo4
* If you want any larger res one's, get in touch with me, had to massively shrink them for putting online.
My personal favourite - Flying Wigs.
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