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March 10th, 2005
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Піліп Грынспан у ніх In 1982, I tried USENET news for the first time. [...] I think it was my friend Luigi who signed me up to net.jokes. After two days, I counted 1 funny joke, 5 not funny jokes, 20 people complaining that Joke X was inappropriate for the list because it was racist/sexist/notfunny/whatever, and 80 people complaining that the complainers should not have complained. I was so impressed with Unix and USENET that I went to talk to the sysadmin [...] "Would you please delete my Unix account?" I asked. About a decade later, my 18th year on the Internet, my officemate at MIT showed me the alt.sex hierarchy. I had no idea . . . |
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