The first gay reference seen by uncountable numbers of children.
Author: DOuG pRATt
Bank Notes
Like you, I’m not using cash very often anymore. Today I wanted cash for lunch with a group of former colleagues. The bank’s ATM kiosk plays an excellent selection of music. In the past I have heard ELO and Cheap Trick. Today while making an ATM withdrawal, I was treated to the Troggs.
Code in the Node
My first hands-on experience with networked, time-sharing computers was an introduction to BASIC programming in a math class I took in my freshman year of college. The programming was interesting but, I admit, it didn’t grab me the way the hardware setup did — teletype terminals connected to a remote data center over leased telephone lines.
Technology Review explains the background on how this educational initiative began, exposing students to the future that we live in today, and the directions the program took later.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/20/1071291/learn-to-code-legacy-new-projects-education/
By April 1971, the network encompassed 30 high schools and 20 colleges in New England, New York, and New Jersey. All an individual school needed to connect were a terminal and a telephone line linking the terminal with the mainframe on Dartmouth’s campus (often the greatest expense of participating in the network, at a time when long-distance phone calls were quite costly).
45’s from ’68
200 tunes from that tumultuous year of musical transition, 1968.
4 and 20 = )
Until today I was totally unaware of 4/20 having any social significance. It’s like May the 4th Be With You, except about marijuana. But you probably already knew that, while I did not.
I assume these two are the patron saints of 420 culture.
Play Foggy for Me
Foggy Mountain Breakdown!
From the Foggy Notions, groovy 60’s garage band sounds you’ve never heard before!