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« Reply #255 on: January 13, 2023, 10:59:41 am »



That would have been really cool; however, as mentioned in the wikipedia article on the ship, due to the inaccuracies of the navigational equipment of the day, the story can't really be verified:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Warrimoo#International_Date_Line_claim
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Re: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023
« Reply #258 on: January 13, 2023, 11:07:57 am »
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Amazing. 

I sure don't go that far back, but I wonder how big it was when I was particpating in the days of those old BBS, which I joined in 1986?
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« Reply #259 on: January 13, 2023, 11:12:35 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on January 13, 2023, 11:07:57 am
Amazing. 

I sure don't go that far back, but I wonder how big it was when I was particpating in the days of those old BBS, which I joined in 1986?

Here it is as it was in 1969:

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« Reply #260 on: January 13, 2023, 11:14:18 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on January 13, 2023, 11:07:57 am
Amazing. 

I sure don't go that far back, but I wonder how big it was when I was particpating in the days of those old BBS, which I joined in 1986?


Another map I found, from 1987:

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« Reply #261 on: January 13, 2023, 11:16:18 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on January 13, 2023, 11:07:57 am
Amazing. 

I sure don't go that far back, but I wonder how big it was when I was particpating in the days of those old BBS, which I joined in 1986?

@catfish1957

1980s History of the Internet:  https://www.computerhistory.org/internethistory/1980s/
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« Reply #265 on: January 13, 2023, 11:31:00 am »
I remember back in '87, that at least the SE Texas Node,  Houston and within maybe 100 miles had about 20 workable BBS access numbers, and maybe 500?  users per host.

I know there was some overlap, but assume there wasn't that'd be 10,000 users for a Metro area covering about 5M people. Extrapolate that to a 250M population at the time.  Our prehistoric internet community would be in the neighborhood 500,000, but I am guessing it probably substantially less than that.   
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« Reply #266 on: January 13, 2023, 11:31:18 am »
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Here it is as it was in 1969:



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Here's how it was before dial-up.



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« Reply #284 on: January 13, 2023, 03:23:42 pm »
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It really does look that way,doesn't it?
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« Reply #291 on: January 13, 2023, 03:55:19 pm »
What happened to that video with the guy saying he couldn't believe his wife didn't want to be with him any more after all these years.  Wife in background says, "I didn't say that.  I asked if you could lose the beard".  Been searching for it everywhere, but can't find it.
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« Reply #294 on: January 13, 2023, 04:27:55 pm »
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My husband put one of those by our front door.   :laugh:
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