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From: vefatica@syr.edu (Vincent Fatica)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: "It's not easy being obsolete"
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 16:23:27 GMT
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It is obvious that some dummies are living in the past, and don't have any idea
what Kermit is today.
It scares me sometimes ... the places one finds such ignorance.
- Vince
Vincent Fatica
Syracuse University Mathematics
vefatica@syr.edu
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>Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 05:19:30 PDT
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>Subject: Dummies Daily - Nerd Word of the Day [IT'S NOT EASY BEING OBSOLETE]
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>TIP: IT'S NOT EASY BEING OBSOLETE
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>August 7th, 1998
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>Today's term: Kermit
>
>Why define a term that's so out of date, you're only likely to
>overhear it as part of a meaningless conversation between reminiscing
>retro-nerds? Because retro-nerds are the last people you want lording
>it over you. So here's one you can throw back at them: Kermit, a
>really old modem protocol that some BBSs used to require but that,
>even in its heyday, played second fiddle to other now-outdated
>protocols such as Xmodem, Ymodem, and (you guessed it) Zmodem (all of
>which we'll cover some other day). Essentially, Kermit was the
>protocol you tried when the others didn't work.
>
>...
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