Silly Picture Thread.

[Phil Perry]

I have to wonder if Tim Berners Lee had known what we were going to do with his WorldWideWeb in August 1992. . . .when the WWW went live. . . . . .would he have still gone ahead with it ?

 

First page ever. . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

I was not responsible for shooting this one. . .I missed mine. Shot in the wilds of Scotland, in the most horrible weather condx. . . . . .Never waste Hoggy meat I say. . . .Yum Yum. . .reminded me of 1970s wild boar shooting up at Wheelbar Bridge in NSW. . .but them characters were bigger and badder than this little chap. . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

Tell you what. . .I'm darned GLAD that Christmas Dinner comes in WInter. . . . oop here in the Nurhtern 'Emisphere. . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

Can't argue with this. . . .

 

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[Old Koreelah]

I have to wonder if Tim Berners Lee had known what we were going to do with his WorldWideWeb in August 1992. . . .when the WWW went live. . . . . .would he have still gone ahead with it ?

First page ever. . . .

 

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That's a bit of history, Phil. It should be in a museum.

 

Years before the WWW, in 1985 I joined an international pen-pals system. Messages were pre-typed then sent via a 1200 bps model, Telecom, OTC, a satellite over the Pacific, California, then another satellite, down to another state, into the local phone system and finally to the recipient. I had a huge pile of manuals from several different service-providers and a whole fleet of log-ons and passwords to remember.

 

I got pretty handy at doing that, but if the net goes down today I'm stuffed!

 

 

[nomadpete]

I think the teletype machines ran at 600 BAUD. I recommend the recent Boyer Lectures available as podcast from ABC. Three episodes on the rise and rise of the digital age and where it might be heading.

 

"Fast, smart and Connected"

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Must find the time to listen to that, Pete.

 

Did they mention that cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are likely to have a greater impact than the internet?

 

 

[spacesailor]

O.K.

 

"Years before the WWW, in 1985 I joined an international pen-pals system."

 

And before that it was all hand-written & posted.

 

The schools tried hard to get us ignoramus kids interested to learn of the other side of the world.

 

F.B would have been a godsend.

 

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research.

 

Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display,

 

compared with the black and white of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models,

 

ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987;

 

together they sold over 5 million units worldwide (not counting clones).

 

The Spectrum was among the first mainstream-audience home computers in the UK,

 

The introduction of the ZX Spectrum led to a boom in companies producing software and hardware for the machine, the effects of which are still seen;

 

some credit it as the machine which launched the UK IT industry. Licensing deals and clones followed,

 

and earned Clive Sinclair a knighthood for "services to British industry".

 

The Commodore 64, Dragon 32, Oric-1 and Atmos, BBC Micro and later the Amstrad CPC range were rivals to the Spectrum in the UK market during the early 1980s.

 

Over 24,000 software titles have been released since the Spectrum's launch and new titles continue to be released—over 100 in 2012.

 

spacesailor

 

 

[Phil Perry]

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[Phil Perry]

Was reading some comments on a political blogsite today. I answered s a question sensibly ( I thought ) and received a load of vitriol, ending in the statement "You are an effing useless * * * * * * * *and a * * * * * * why don't you * * * * off and go fly a kite" This picture was attached to his / Her answer. . . ( Odd really, as this site had nowt to do with aviation ! )

 

Must have thought I was an old Stringbag or summat. . . I thanked the person, and posted back a picture of a Gloster Gladiator with the tagline, "Thanks Mate,. . .but I already have one. . ."

 

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If that was supposed to be an insult. . .it failed bigly. . .

 

[storchy neil]

Gee Phil hard to get some to look at the big picture must've been labour voter Neil:oops:

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Gee Phil hard to get some to look at the big picture must've been labour voter Neil:oops:

You'll get shot for going all Polly on this thread mate !. . . actually, there are loads of 'Commentable' sites I don't see, until I click on something of interest, then find that there are comments allowed below the line ( BTL ) in the article. . .as this one was. Mainly about the UK NHS. . .so coulda been an anything voter mate ! I'll tell you what I said to enrage the person,. . but not here. . . .

 

 

[storchy neil]

I recond at a short gues you said bugger it can't say that can I Neil

 

 

[Phil Perry]

I recond at a short gues you said bugger it can't say that can I Neil

No,. . .I used FACTS. easily checkable. Some folks just HATE that. NOW. . . Bugger off with this to the POLITICS thread. Or I'll just ignore Ya . . yer bloody Larrikin. . . . :-)

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Father Christmas arrives late, but alive and safe, to open another Christmas street market . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

Arf Arf. . . .

 

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[Old Koreelah]

O.K."Years before the WWW, in 1985 I joined an international pen-pals system."

 

And before that it was all hand-written & posted.

 

The schools tried hard to get us ignoramus kids interested to learn of the other side of the world.

 

F.B would have been a godsend.

 

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research...

I started on Microbees. Australian. Exported to Sweden.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Tandy TRS80

Used a TRS 80 to send 'Electro Teletype' on Amateur radio to a mate on the Gold Coast, who had one too. 500 Baud. . odd baud rate that. . . It worked well, as both of us could type reasonably quickly, and the text came up at the other end in real time, Or, we could save a block of text, and send it as a 'Lump'. . .Only a 'One Way' ( Half Duplex ) circuit though of course. . .take it in turns. . .

 

***EDITED DAYS LATER*** ( For some additional info. . .)

 

 

I was most remiss, in my almost dismissive reference to a 'Mate on the Gold Coast' above.

 

He was a really Nice man. Name of Frank Halliwell. I met him on Amateur radio and we struck up a great friendship. Frank was the guy who got me interested in computers, and we both built an OSI Superboard computer kit. . which was simply a big motherboard, with six rubber feet, and a standard Qwerty keyboard on one end. It had 8K of RAM, and 8K of BASIC in ROM. ( More than Apollo 13 ! )

 

We started sending digital messages over VHF at 300 Baud. . .and then went on to the Tandy TRS-80 thing. . .

 

Frank was originally from Canada, and had the radio callsign VK4 AVE. He had asked for that s the Canucks use 'VE' for their callsign prefix. It was his way of saying that he was A. . .VE.

 

Canadians are sometimes mistaken for Yanks, which, I gather is some sort of deep insult.

 

Frank was a self employed mechanical excavator operator, with his own big 'Digger' machine. .

 

His 'Other' hobby was writing Poetry, at which, as far as I could see, he was very good at and had some of his work published in the 1970s. He lived, not on the Gold Coast, but at Jimboomba. I understand that some of his work is still available on some internet site but I lost the link in the late 1980s regrettably..

 

I'm going to do search to see if I can dig up any information about him as we lost touch a looong time back . . . for which I am eternally sorry.. He was a good 15 or 20 years my senior, so if he IS still with us, he's going to be a bit wrinkly now.

 

****EDITED AGAIN A WEEK LATER****

 

Thanks to Gareth Lacy for posting me an email address for Frank. Regrettably, it appears to be inactive. . . .still looking around for any of his published work.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

We ought to keep a register of old farts with such skills, so we can re-start technology after those two spoiled brats in Washington and Pyongyang are finished having their war.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

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A vile mass murderer who utterly destroyed his country's economy.

 

Pictured here with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe

 

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( Did you know that Mr. Mugabe must come from Yorkshire ?. . .His name, spelled backwards,

 

IS . . . . . e ba guM. . . .)

 

[Phil Perry]

We ought to keep a register of old farts with such skills, so we can re-start technology after those two spoiled brats in Washington and Pyongyang are finished having their war.

I can fix Old, Lethal Neon signs. . .? If anybody has a Broken one. . .Just repaired a 'Budweiser' Bow Tie beer sign which was meant to hang inside bar windows. . . Easy fix, charged the bloke £30.00.

 

Then I later found out he'd flogged it for £350.00, collectors item apparently ! ( Drat ! )

 

If you ever see a Budweiser neon window sign with a red outine of a Guitar, and the word Budweiser in white,. . .try and buy or steal it. . .the last one was sold in the UK for £4,700.00. Quite rare. . .If the Red outline of the Geetar is cracked or slighlty damaged, it can be repaired. However, if the White text is broken, it Can't. Too dangerous for the glassblower as it contains Mercury. You'd have to have it made from scratch, using the old bit as a pattern. . .for that sort of cash it might just be worth it though !

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Disgusting Filth. . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

Can't remember if this is one of Peter's. . . . .

 

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[Phil Perry]

I also can't recall where this one came from either . . .Useful Cooking info for Christmas though. . .

 

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[Jerry_Atrick]