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Author Topic: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC  (Read 3138 times)

Offline John Poet

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FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« on: October 12, 2011, 1706 UTC »
Too much irony here... with the FRN poised to try to save themselves by copy-catting one of the features of 'those other trashy forums':

http://www.frn.net/vines/Forum1/HTML/005078.html

I guess 'If you can't beat em, copycat em'!



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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 1633 UTC »
It's called "Rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic".

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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 1852 UTC »
You're a mean one,Al.


Where have you been?

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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2011, 2012 UTC »
Next thing you know, Pat Murphy will start a blog.
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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2011, 2208 UTC »
Actually, I think the new look of the FRN is entirely appropriate. It does look a little out of place as a web page; I think it would be more at home on, say, a Datapoint, or Hazeltine, or even a Teletype terminal.

You're a mean one,Al.

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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2011, 0208 UTC »
Actually, I think the new look of the FRN is entirely appropriate. It does look a little out of place as a web page; I think it would be more at home on, say, a Datapoint, or Hazeltine, or even a Teletype terminal.

You're a mean one,Al.
How about a set of punch cards? :P
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Re: FRN poised to copycat HFU/FRC
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2011, 0910 UTC »
This is going to date me,but at my first real job I had to learn to operate a punchcard machine. Then they taught me a super-secret computer language called "Fortran". I understand it's declassified now.

 

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