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random thought of the moment:

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse, of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts & at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging & are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions agst. danger real or pretended from abroad. — James Madison, Letter to Thomas Jefferson [1798]

Kickin' It Old School

April 19th, 2003 by Funky Dung

Ah…the good old days.

A world without the Internet
ONLINE REVOLUTION BEGAN 25 YEARS AGO IN CHICAGO — AND IT TOOK JUST A MONTH
By Patrick Kampert

"Imagine a world without the Internet. Without e-mail. Without Windows or Apples. Heck, for that matter, imagine a world without PCs. That's what the world was like 25 years ago when two Chicago guys named Ward Christensen and Randy Suess officially launched the world's first computerized bulletin board system (BBS). It took them less than a month to create it. And in typical Chicago fashion, a snowstorm got an assist in the invention."

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