[TUHS] Oh, things were very different.

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Jun 26 02:24:42 AEST 2020


On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:52 AM Lawrence Stewart <stewart at serissa.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 2020, Jun 25, at 12:15 AM, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:
> >
> > https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_days_2.png
> >
> > -r
> >
>
> The trick to these is to include one nugget of truth.  If anyone asks, I’m
> saying the sweater part is absolutely true.
>
> After all, BITNET actually did work by connecting a virtual card punch to
> a remote virtual card reader.
>

I have thousands of virtual sweaters in a drawer upstairs. They were what
inspired virtual machines and the cloud after all...

Warner
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