We were the first website on the net!Actually, tommorow i saw the last page on the forums and there were posts dated "1970".What is this?
I mean, what is the history of this site?
Don't worry, it amused me first time I saw it! I had posts dating back to 1970 and I wasn't even alive then!Ok- ok- So those were fake.I just have a habit of becoming excited.
That might be a plausible explanation for the seemingly random 1/1/70 date. As a guess when the boards were transferred from Invision to vBulletin, certain threads (of a certain early period of the forums) did not have a date-stamp - therefore a standard date 1/1/70 was used in place.I think 1/1/1970 is when Unix Time started. It is supposed to roll over in 2038, the so called Y2K38 problem. Thirty years to go and counting.
http://vancouver-webpages.com/time/Y2K38.html
while i dont mean an offense..but in light humour:Actually, tommorow i saw the last page on the forums and there were posts dated "1970".What is this?
I mean, what is the history of this site?
i agree...esp with the latter partThe Y2K38 problem looks as much of a non-starter as the Y2K problem. Actually there was a millennium bug - Windows ME!!
I missed that one. How strange that the same word is used for closely related, but polar, words. I am not surprised there was some confusion.while i dont mean an offense..but in light humour:
what freaks me out is that he saw it tommorow.
actually this is a big problem in the subcontinent..since we have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow.ppl often wrongly use the latter for the former.
Ahhh, someone else who suffered! I hated it, thankfully XP came along little over a year later.i agree...esp with the latter part
while i dont mean an offense..but in light humour:
what freaks me out is that he saw it tommorow.
actually this is a big problem in the subcontinent..since we have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow.ppl often wrongly use the latter for the former.
Don't worry about it, I didn't even notice!Actually, english is not our native language so these mistakes are "must"(almost).
Just shows you how advanced we are here at AAC!I would have asked for clarification too. In 1970, PDP-11's were hot. There was no internet. The closest thing to a desktop computer I was aware of was a Data General Supernova, which need a manually entered boot loader. 8" floppies were revolutionary. TSO was the way you logged onto the mainframe, and the IBM 370 was king. Hard disks were either Winchesters, or separate peripherals that weighed hundreds of pounds, with a couple of megabyte capacities. Univac was still building octal-organized computers. I had a friend working for Martin-Marietta who had to hand select TTL chips that would clock at 40 MHz. NSA still had a plugboard programmed computer running.
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