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To: goldbux

And, within 24 hours, the online tutorial titled “Cleaning Your Mouse’s Balls” was posted...


427 posted on 11/03/2022 3:14:19 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (We are a FREE people. Start acting like it. Live Free.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Mouse-rollers slither . . .

". . . the online tutorial . . . was posted . . ."

If so, no one – except the author – read it, since there was no "online" in 1963.
No Internet, no computer networking hardware or software, no satellites [other than Sputnik], no time-sharing.

In 1963 some wiseguy might have typed a clever message or rant into IBM 70-column punch cards, printed the deck through the single, large, kachunka line-printer, and posted the fanfold printout on the computer-room corkboard.

John McCarthy helped create time-sharing ~ 1965.
An early version was running on a DEC PDP-10 at SAIL in 1969.

492 posted on 11/03/2022 8:57:02 AM PDT by goldbux (“The whole world is a very narrow bridge. The main thing is to have no fear at all.” –– R. Nachman)
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