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From: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross)
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Subject: Re: "It's not easy being obsolete"
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 09:30:08 +0100
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On 8 Aug 1998 15:20:39 GMT, Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>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Why define a term that's so out of date, you're only likely to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?
Hmm. And I suppose next week they're going to define FTP as something
which was made obsolete by the world wide web?
-- Charlie