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I was only just saying to a relative that Catcher in the Rye has been made obsolete by LiveJournal.

Let's not forget jottit.com. Aaron's website to make notes. It was useful back in the day.

I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents. This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.

I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since. I guess what I sho…

I did a search on comments on HN for Wolfram Alpha. Most posts are 8 years old, none newer, some older. What's going on? Did Wolfram Alpha stop being useful, or did people just for…

I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard …

I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in…

XP had no modern browser... Until now! http://www.mypal-browser.org 800,000 users can't be wrong (out of 240 million XP users worldwide). This project is important because Firefox …

I use an Epoc32 emulator on my PC so I can do Agenda on that, and it beeps me my reminders. I got sick of buying Psion 5's and 5MX's because they always broke in 6 months.

I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x4…

I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd …

Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Good article, I enjoyed it. Can anyone get the latest Firefox working on XP?

Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this. Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it…

I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.

Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played l…

Well Usenet provider Giganews has 10 years of Usenet, but I don't know if they kept it from 1990 or... just threw it away.

I remember running Ultima 6 and installing - using the hard disk option - to a RAM disk. My friend had a 4MB RAM expansion. I was basically having a 2MB hard disk in RAM! I'd load …

I just want to buy a phone with this on. Is this possible? I don't want the hassle of finding a phone on Ebay and installing some bundle of software. I just want to plug and play.

The secretive Hacker Conference is for people featured in the book Hackers. Ted Nelson is one person who I know, who is in it.

UT Zoo is indexed on my usenet site: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/