On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
Moved to Milliways. nforce4max, off-topic/random stuff belongs in Milliways. 😉
"I see a little silhouette-o of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you
do the Fandango!" - Queen
Stiletto
Impressive. Sight of those towers is creepy/ominous though. 1993 was also the year of the first attack on them.
Is this too much voodoo?
wrote:Moved to Milliways. nforce4max, off-topic/random stuff belongs in Milliways. 😉
Sorry about that 😊
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
wrote:Impressive. Sight of those towers is creepy/ominous though. 1993 was also the year of the first attack on them.
Not quite...
In August of 1977 the Puerto-Rican separatists (referred to as F.A.L.N.) set off bombs at the WTC right when Tandy was on the steps of the New Your Stock Exchange (a couple blocks away) throwing a press conference for their unveiling of the TRS-80 computer. Before they could announce it to the gathered reporters, all of them ran off to cover the first bombing of the WTC, leaving Tandy to look for a new place to announce their computer. They ended up going to the Boston Computer Society show and got a booth there. They then found out that the Boston Computer Society was run by a 14 year old kid. Still, they were able to announce their new computer and it went on to be a HUGE success for them. So that's how the first WTC attack happened and it happened during a rather pivotal moment in computer history. At least, that's the story I learned as a kid some 35 years ago. Not a lot of info on the subject out there, but what there is does seem to show those were the facts.
Streets with not an SUV in sight... a thing o beauty. Miss the old WALK signs.
pre-Internet (at home) and pre-mobile phones (at everyone) times
wrote:pre-Internet (at home) and pre-mobile phones (at everyone) times
whoa! you a New Yorker too? City just aint what it used to be...
it was still very much a bbs-dialing/compuserving/aoling and beeper pagery time though
wrote:you a New Yorker too?
no
I go to NYC on business quite often, but I never been there prior to the modern internet age. It's so diffrent.........
