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  9. From: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross)
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  11. Subject: Re: "It's not easy being obsolete"
  12. Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 09:30:08 +0100
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  25. On 8 Aug 1998 15:20:39 GMT, Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
  26.  
  27. >Today's term: Kermit 
  28. >
  29. >Why define a term that's so out of date, you're only likely to 
  30. >overhear it as part of a meaningless conversation between reminiscing 
  31. >retro-nerds? 
  32.  
  33. Hmm. And I suppose next week they're going to define FTP as something
  34. which was made obsolete by the world wide web?
  35.  
  36.  
  37. -- Charlie