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Found the December 1994 article I read that was my first introduction to HTML and helped me write my first home page. One of the few articles I read that has stayed with me for ove…

Before watching that video all the IBM employees would have had to get together and sing songs. It was a long standing tradition at IBM that all employees at the start of the day h…

It has never really went away. Check the news and you can see news stories about employees at anatomy schools and funeral homes who were engaged in the illicit sale of bodies and b…

sysop breaking in for chat: I remember getting a modem for Christmas 1990 (2400 baud modem) and logging into BBSs and my world would never be the same. I was a hardcore BBS user fr…

In Canada because of our privacy rules we have the ability to opt out of having our address published in the official government ham database. American hams don't have that option …

I am VE3HWO. I hold a basic with honours and advanced qualifications in Canada. Hoping to connect with other hams on HN. 73

I am a ham radio operator and also a member of Radio Amateurs of Canada. As we all know, the weather can be a matter of life and death and it is important Canadians have access to …

Writing a blog nobody reads is called a diary.

This article reads like study notes for the Canadian Advanced ham license exam. It's a great crash course on diodes.

Sounds like the start of the plot for a heist movie

There is a great YouTube video on the subject if you are interested. Its 38 minutes long but worth the watch. When The Soviets Hunted Down Their Own Warship https://www.youtube.com…

I thought the joke was things were running on HP-UX (said the guy that had to use campus services running on HP-UX in the 90s). Let the 90's Unix flame wars begin!

QModem allowed me to explore the wonderful world of BBSs before the Internet was a thing. Having access to BBSs gave me a leg up when I got to University and got access to the Inte…

I was one of those Linux evangelists back in the 90s. Tried to get all the undergrads in my CS program migrated to Linux back in the day. Fun times.

I had the opposite experience. I actually left the industry and then suffered a workplace injury in the new job(PTSD). Trust me when I say this, PTSD really messes you up. One of t…

Spent hours back in the day getting my ass kicked playing this with my grandfather. It quite often got used as a chance to get some grandfatherly advice. The one lesson he taught m…

Seeing the name Watcom takes me back to my days of high school computer science doing BASIC and Pascal.

Anyone here old enough to remember from the BBS days when Phil Katz was embroiled in a legal dispute over his program PKARC and the ARC compression file format? At the time it was …

Lost my mother to ALS. She was a nurse so she made a point to ask if there was a chance she passed it onto her kids and was assured no we are fine. It is a small consolation consid…

How about some love for Quick BASIC? That was my big Christmas present once upon a time when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth.

As an ex Excite@Home employee (anyone remember Excite??) I think its cool to see the old company pop up on HN in 2023

Dr. Dobb's Dec 1994 had an article on writing HTML. I used it as a reference to write my first homepage (remember when homepages were a thing?) in Dec. 1994 on the computer science…

I was the high school student that used to teach the teachers how to use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS back in the day. So many memories seeing it again

To be fair maybe the app is done but not rejected by the Apple review process so there is some back and forth getting the app to pass. A lot of app politics to navigate for both Ap…

If it is a dead body and it is being cremated you take it out so it doesn't explode in the crematorium. I say this as a former funeral director who had to remove them.