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APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« on: October 16, 2008, 10:26:38 PM »
Based on the last post date of the bottom two stickies.

APS: 1969-2008, we'll be celebrating our 40th anniversary soon!!!!
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2008, 10:30:52 PM »
Well.....I remember when Mike Irwin took over from our last head moderator....Moses...
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2008, 10:34:52 PM »
No no, CR Sam took over from Moses.
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2008, 11:21:27 PM »
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2008, 09:11:33 AM »
I've found older files than that.

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« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2008, 09:48:37 AM »
We used to wait for the Pony Express guy to deliver our new flash drives.  It was like Christmas when we'd hear the clippity-clop comin' 'round the mountain.  The old red rooster always went & hid.  We never did figure that one out.  Smart bird but always acted a little strange around horses & women...

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2008, 10:27:40 AM »
You young whippersnappers can't even imagine what it was like having to surf the internet by candlelight  :laugh:
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2008, 10:38:05 AM »
Quote from: Tallpine on October 17, 2008, 10:27:40 AM
You young whippersnappers can't even imagine what it was like having to surf the internet by candlelight  :laugh:

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2008, 10:39:30 AM »
Is that what a think it is?

An engraving of Nicolai Tesla's "power tower" in New Jersey?
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2008, 10:56:38 AM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 17, 2008, 10:39:30 AM
Is that what a think it is?

An engraving of Nicolai Tesla's "power tower" in New Jersey?

Yep, the tower at Wardenclyffe. I watched a history channel special on Tesla and the building and foundation for the tower is still there. My dad is a big fan of Tesla, so I heard all about his experiments and projects growing up.

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2008, 11:19:30 AM »
I saw the same show. That's what made me think it was Tesla's tower.
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2008, 11:29:58 AM »
Yep, APS was around even before ALGORE invented the intrawebz.
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2008, 11:35:27 AM »
Quote from: scout26 on October 17, 2008, 11:29:58 AM
Yep, APS was around even before ALGORE invented the intrawebz.

Not true!

Al invented time itself! Before Al told us where Mickey's hands were, everything existed together at the same point in time.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2008, 12:06:15 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 17, 2008, 11:35:27 AM
Not true!

Al invented time itself! Before Al told us where Mickey's hands were, everything existed together at the same point in time.

...and I was my own grandpa.....
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2008, 03:29:17 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 17, 2008, 10:39:30 AM
Is that what a think it is?

An engraving of Nicolai Tesla's "power tower" in New Jersey?

Wow... Almost EXACTLY what I was going to post.  Tesla never does get enough credit for his work, the man was amazing.  Besides, I like DC better anyways; the math is easier. 

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2008, 03:34:40 PM »
i used to send IMs via drums & semaphore
when I got my morse code clacker I was the BMOC
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2008, 03:40:15 PM »
The good old days...

Girls posting MySpace telegrams describing them lifting their skirts at wild parties to show a few inches of petticoat... Kids all walking around with their pocket Victrolas, bumping into gas-lamps and stepping in horse manure because they always had the horn up to their heads and weren't looking where they were going. Pinkertons chasing boys with bootleg Edison wax cylinders...

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2008, 03:58:40 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on October 17, 2008, 03:40:15 PM
The good old days...

Girls posting MySpace telegrams describing them lifting their skirts at wild parties to show a few inches of petticoat... Kids all walking around with their pocket Victrolas, bumping into gas-lamps and stepping in horse manure because they always had the horn up to their heads and weren't looking where they were going. Pinkertons chasing boys with bootleg Edison wax cylinders...

We found an old stack of LOLCat telegrams & engravings in my departed grandfather's things he'd kept since he was a boy.

INVIZIBL VELOCIPEDE! [STOP]

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157600296941365/

Artist is actually damned talented and knows his comic history...

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2008, 04:25:42 PM »
Man those days were tough before MOSAIC. I wonder what the Baud rate was 1 bit per second?

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« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2008, 04:29:54 PM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on October 17, 2008, 03:58:40 PM
Tell me you've seen this comic...

 :laugh: Actually I have, Stumbled Upon took me to it a few months ago.  However those didn't even ocurr to me when I posted the above, or maybe they did subliminaly.
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« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2008, 06:36:49 PM »
"Besides, I like DC better anyways; the math is easier."

My Grandfather was a mechanical engineer who did a lot of structural engineering work on the side after he retired.

One of the buildings that he did a consult on was an old factory in Huntington, Pennsylvania. I went there with him when he did an initial physical inspection.

The building had its own power grid. Originally power had been supplied from its own boiler house, but it had been hooked into the grid at some point in time.

But the mechanicals in the building had never been changed. They were all DC -- lights, motors, everything -- and a LOT of them had been made in the 1800s (judging by the plates on the motor housings) by Edison's companies.

The power grid obviously supplied AC current, but in what had been the old generating house it was transformed into DC.
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2008, 07:11:21 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 16, 2008, 10:34:52 PM
No no, CR Sam took over from Moses.

Whatever happened to him? My wife and I went shooting with him shortly before I went to boot camp, I've not seen him around on the boards since.
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« Reply #22 on: October 17, 2008, 08:47:57 PM »
Dunno where Sam is, sent him an e-mail a few months back wondering how he was, haven't heard anything.
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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2008, 12:21:06 AM »
A Short History of the Internets' Origins. 

The first internet was invented by Aaron Burr in 1473. Al Gore did not invent the internet, although he was one of the researchers who developed the first modem in 1603. Prior to telephonic transmission, internets were limited to one computer only, although two computers in the same room were sometimes joined by pneumatic tube. This was first attempted by Sir Isaac Newton in 1512, although Steve Jobs was the first to do so successfully. Jobs perfected this technique by 1540, the same year in which Samuel Gompers first linked two computer internets by passenger pigeon.

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Re: APS must be the oldest site on the internets.
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2008, 11:11:45 AM »
My great-grandpa said that when he crossed the plains in a covered wagon, there was no cell phone service west of St. Louis  :O
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