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However...he aquired much of his art and wealth by killing Jews.

Isn't that how Mel Gibson did it?

/crickets

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:blink: How did you guys not know about this? This is fabled lore of USENET, I mean... oh wait, you guys probably never even heard of, much less used USENET....

If you'll excuse me, I have to go practice my "I know better than you because I am an old man" stare.... *sigh* :no:

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:blink: How did you guys not know about this? This is fabled lore of USENET, I mean... oh wait, you guys probably never even heard of, much less used USENET....

If you'll excuse me, I have to go practice my "I know better than you because I am an old man" stare.... *sigh* :no:

I am an old school geek as well. First started getting on the 'Net around 1986. Before Al Gore invented it. :D

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I am an old school geek as well. First started getting on the 'Net around 1986. Before Al Gore invented it. :D

I do remember using out 1200 baud modem to log on to BBS sites as a kid... before the advent of AOL. May not be that old school, but it's quite amazing how far we've come since then in such a relatively short amount of time.

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I do remember using out 1200 baud modem to log on to BBS sites as a kid... before the advent of AOL. May not be that old school, but it's quite amazing how far we've come since then in such a relatively short amount of time.

Time to pull out the old man stories.

I had a BITNET email address. Bitnet died when TCP/IP became popular. :unsure:

My mind has never been as blown as when I discovered my very first search engine. It ran Archie so that I could search MULTIPLE FTP SITES AT ONCE! :o

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Time to pull out the old man stories.

I had a BITNET email address. Bitnet died when TCP/IP became popular. :unsure:

My mind has never been as blown as when I discovered my very first search engine. It ran Archie so that I could search MULTIPLE FTP SITES AT ONCE! :o

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