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Post by 486sx33 »

Some nice nostalgia for me

-In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar.

-I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job

-In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture moving. Both of us made over $4000 a week in our early 20s

-Now out of those 4 buildings I think black berry only has two floors of one building

-Waterloo has seen serious decline since the death of RIM

-Not sure it will ever come back, most people including myself left years ago.

-there has been a serious condo tower boom, but that sucks for “walkability” and it’s radically changed the area

-if you attended university in Waterloo in the 2000s and lived off campus, wherever you lived is likely gone and there is a condo tower there now.

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Post by beng-nl »

lproven wrote: post #3

The world needs a driving licence for email. It would mandatorily include use of plain-text and bottom-posting.

I used to think the same but I caved when I started using web interface email clients. Let’s face it, the world has moved on, new generations are online, and we are the wrong ones now.

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Post by speerer »

beng-nl wrote: post #4
lproven wrote: post #3

The world needs a driving licence for email. It would mandatorily include use of plain-text and bottom-posting.

I used to think the same but I caved when I started using web interface email clients. Let’s face it, the world has moved on, new generations are online, and we are the wrong ones now.

I don't understand why this isn't configurable. Why can't the basic data structures (of one email after another in serial) be displayed in either order depending on mail client settings?

Admittedly I haven't looked into it because I'm perfectly fine with top posted emails. But I routinely sort files in my directory. Why not emails in a displayed thread?

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Post by easton »

That random “J” at the end of the messages brings me back to mail circa 2010. As I recall, iOS also didn’t render Outlook’s smileys right, leaving a bunch of Js in mail from my Mom.

(For the ones who ‘missed’ it: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=31...)

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Post by afandian »

lproven wrote: post #3

The world needs a driving licence for email. It would mandatorily include use of plain-text and bottom-posting.

Europe has one. I’ve got one. I am qualified to use 2004-era Microsoft software, and have a certificate to prove it… somewhere.

(Edit: since I got mine it’s acquired the word ‘international’ but lost the word ‘driving’. Swings and roundabouts.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computer_Drivi...

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Post by Waterluvian »

486sx33 wrote: post #2

Some nice nostalgia for me -In high school we walked to that exact KFC for lunch and would discuss the previous nights antics playing StarCraft broodwar. -I used to fix computers (professionally) at a store on the same street as that gas station as an after high school job -In Dec/jan 2010 I worked 18 hours a day laying floors in the new RIM buildings at Philip/Colombia. A friend’s dad did a lot of the furniture movi…

Did you go to WCI too? This is all so nostalgic for me.

Though I grew up in Waterloo and lived at home, yeah, the city sure has grown a ton. I moved away to raise a family.

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