Brisbane POTN Coffee Club (3) - Everything From Shutters to Cuppas

willstar wrote in post #5092751
Meanwhile, just doing some family history research and so0oo much is available on the net now. Census records, old phone book entries. Found the listing for my Dad's aunt and uncle from about 1960-1980, same address, same phone no.

My wife has a hand-drawn page that a priest (from her parents' province in Italy) put together - the Formica family tracing back to 1700!

ROFL! I have my family on my dad's side going back to a bit before 874....

My brother, well one of them he and his uni mates (from the day) still run their IRC channel from when they were at uni.

wakko wrote in post #5092801
the hand drawn thing...

i have 'tired person' syndrome... forgive me

Oh, OK, got you. No - no photo of it.

Might be bed time, as it's now tomorrow already....

willstar wrote in post #5092816
Oh, OK, got you. No - no photo of it.

Might be bed time, as it's now tomorrow already....

That now means that we want a photo!

>just got home for a gig. ohh I'm wide awake.

HelenThura wrote in post #5092824
That now means that we want a photo!

>just got home for a gig. ohh I'm wide awake.

Oh, morning!

How about some 10-20 wideness, with majoral distortion. Even PSPX2 perspective correction struggled with this one - ended up with mostly sky and a tiny bit of building......

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And look how tall Sam's got these days....

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Now it's bed time.

Night all.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #5092242
Kids these days! Bah, in my day we used WAIS, Archie and Gopher 'cause there was none of this fancy World Wide Web stuff.
Email was king, but if you wanted to chat online it was IRC or for smaller groups on the same server, talk or the slightly better ytalk. NNTP (usenet) was the forum of the time.

Do you remember the netfetch days? Used to use it all the time to get shareware.

Nick C. wrote in post #5092421
The others seem to like it, so it might just be me, but it does appear a bit flat on my screen. Her skin also looks a little too blue to me.

If you'll permit me, this is the sort of toning I would go for. But then, I do like a much warmer look to shots like this.

Thanks Nick, yeah that looks better.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #5092242
Kids these days! Bah, in my day we used WAIS, Archie and Gopher 'cause there was none of this fancy World Wide Web stuff.
Email was king, but if you wanted to chat online it was IRC or for smaller groups on the same server, talk or the slightly better ytalk. NNTP (usenet) was the forum of the time.

I was talking to a guy i used to work with on msn yesterday and he transfered from griffith to qut at the start of the semester. He said that him and his friends had a friend in the library that set up a proxy server for them so they could do whatever they wanted with the uni internet.

The sad thing is, the uni found out and shut it down

willstar wrote in post #5092843
Oh, morning!

How about some 10-20 wideness, with majoral distortion. Even PSPX2 perspective correction struggled with this one - ended up with mostly sky and a tiny bit of building......

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Teh buildings are fallin down!!one11!

Greg_C wrote in post #5094775
Do you remember the netfetch days? Used to use it all the time to get shareware.

Can't say I ever used netfetch. My early internet access was either via a dumb terminal or sometimes an x-terminal at Uni, or via a 1200/300 bps modem connection (to uni - soon upgraded to 2400) - downloading software over that was something you really thought about.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #5095043
Can't say I ever used netfetch. My early internet access was either via a dumb terminal or sometimes an x-terminal at Uni, or via a 1200/300 bps modem connection (to uni - soon upgraded to 2400) - downloading software over that was something you really thought about.

we usied to use netfetch from, PDP11 computers running mail software and you'd send a mail message to an addy with a netfetch command inthe body and then you receive the program as a series of attachemnts. You then had to put them back together again using dos binary copy.

-spam- wrote in post #5094825
The buildings are fallin down!!one11!

Aaarrggghhh! And you're about 10' tall!

DAdeGroot wrote in post #5095043
Can't say I ever used netfetch. My early internet access was either via a dumb terminal or sometimes an x-terminal at Uni, or via a 1200/300 bps modem connection (to uni - soon upgraded to 2400) - downloading software over that was something you really thought about.

Amazing, isn't it - all that seemed such a short time ago.

Now we're stuck with a dumb OS :p (albeit improving each revision). And no - this isn't an invite to start slagging Windoze..... Or "extolling the virtues" of the Big A

willstar wrote in post #5095525
Now we're stuck with a dumb OS :p (albeit improving each revision). And no - this isn't an invite to start slagging Windoze..... Or "extolling the virtues" of the Big A

Must... resist...
apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple

Hey - if Sam can do it, why can't I?

leitch wrote in post #5095933
Must... resist...
apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple apple

Hey - if Sam can do it, why can't I?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Trumples wrote in post #5096077
An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Wouldn't help keep the bank manager at bay, though!