From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 10:44:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MDAQBJ8qKd37_-7hoPkVJTX8CTDtJPQreQ14v2v_DFCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1804071034340.9012@frieza.hoshinet.org>
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On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki at buric.co> wrote:
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> I thought the epoch of the Internet was January 1, 1983.
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In the USA, we have an idea called adoption day, which is picked when
family of an adopted child celebrates their becoming part of the family,
which when the kids are young we point is in many ways is more powerful
than the birthday. because it says we picked you.
So one might want to claim that 1983/01/01 is the Internet's 'Adoption
Day' and not really care much about the others.
Clem
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-07 12:50 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-07 14:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-07 14:44 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-09 0:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-09 1:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
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2018-04-09 15:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-10 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-10 19:11 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-09 14:57 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 14:52 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 15:01 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-04-07 4:54 Rudi Blom
2018-04-07 15:21 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-06 20:56 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:10 ` Nemo
2018-04-06 23:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-07 4:48 Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 4:58 ` Warren Toomey
2017-04-07 5:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 6:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-08 5:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-09 0:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-09 2:42 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-10 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 13:55 ` Nemo
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