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by zandorg 5y ago
I was only just saying to a relative that Catcher in the Rye has been made obsolete by LiveJournal.
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by zandorg 5y ago
Let's not forget jottit.com. Aaron's website to make notes. It was useful back in the day.
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by zandorg 5y ago
I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents. This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.
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by zandorg 5y ago
I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?
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by zandorg 5y ago
Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.
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by zandorg 5y ago
My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since. I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
340 points by zandorg 5y ago|264 comments
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by zandorg 5y ago
I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. The
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by zandorg 5y ago
I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and ther
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by zandorg 5y ago
XP had no modern browser... Until now! http://www.mypal-browser.org 800,000 users can't be wrong (out of 240 million XP users worldwide). This project is important because Firefox stopped working on XP 4 years ago -
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New Modern Up-to-Date Firefox Browser for Windows XP(mypal-browser.org)
2 points by zandorg 5y ago|0 comments
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by zandorg 5y ago
I use an Epoc32 emulator on my PC so I can do Agenda on that, and it beeps me my reminders. I got sick of buying Psion 5's and 5MX's because they always broke in 6 months.
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by zandorg 5y ago
I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.
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by zandorg 5y ago
I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now. I told him of
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by zandorg 5y ago
Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
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by zandorg 5y ago
Good article, I enjoyed it. Can anyone get the latest Firefox working on XP?
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Show HN: Mapfinder (Frequency Search) on GitHub(github.com)
1 points by zandorg 6y ago|0 comments
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by zandorg 6y ago
Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this. Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it. "That's not a thumb drive, that's a thumb!
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by zandorg 6y ago
I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.
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by zandorg 7y ago
Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played live at the same venue as a previous Rephlex gig in Edin
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by zandorg 7y ago
Well Usenet provider Giganews has 10 years of Usenet, but I don't know if they kept it from 1990 or... just threw it away.
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by zandorg 8y ago
I remember running Ultima 6 and installing - using the hard disk option - to a RAM disk. My friend had a 4MB RAM expansion. I was basically having a 2MB hard disk in RAM! I'd load the whole of U6 from 4 floppy disks, then fire it up an
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by zandorg 8y ago
I just want to buy a phone with this on. Is this possible? I don't want the hassle of finding a phone on Ebay and installing some bundle of software. I just want to plug and play.
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by zandorg 9y ago
The secretive Hacker Conference is for people featured in the book Hackers. Ted Nelson is one person who I know, who is in it.
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by zandorg 9y ago
UT Zoo is indexed on my usenet site: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/
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by zandorg 9y ago
About 5 years ago, I got a 1541 drive and an XA1541 plugged in the parallel port. The purpose was to 'rip' some disks (last used in 1997) I found in my mother's loft. Most notably, I found an old story I thought was lost, and
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by zandorg 9y ago
They shut down Half.com not so long ago having bought it in 2001 or so for $300 million. There goes a good marketplace for books & CDs. Bad move!
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by zandorg 9y ago
I know Ted Nelson of Xanadu. For the record, in 2005 I told him about Million Dollar Homepage, and he was angry that someone could get rich off such a stupid idea when so many others fail.
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by zandorg 9y ago
Don't forget Pete Shelley's XL1 which ran on a Spectrum from a vinyl record.
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by zandorg 10y ago
Don't forget my 1980's Usenet search engine: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/ Also I downloaded all Usenet from 2003-2013 (800GB of stuff) and Archive.org have that now (I sent it to them on a 1TB drive).

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