- Flying-Squid
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This morning, I was going through a box of things my parents brought to me that they dug out of their attic and were going to toss out. They included lots of papers of both mine and my brother's. In the middle of it all was one of those old style extra-long dot matrix printouts with the green and white lines on it folded up. On the first page was printed:
code:J F B T 1 1 5 2
80/08/17 14-24-14
OUTPUT PRUS = 404
code:21.13.48.**** NOTEPR VER 6.0 **** 80/08/12
NOTES FROM 80/08/07. TO 80/08/12.
It was a very long log of a program called Note written to run on DARPAnet (the precursor of the internet) mainframes from August of 1980. My brother was a high school freshman at the time, but he hung out a lot at the (one) Indiana University computer lab which is where he would have used the program. I have no idea which one of these people, if any, are my brother but I know who at least one of them was because it was his nickname in the real world too.
What's interesting to me about this is how some things are still the same. There are still gimmick posters, still trolls, etc.... and how some things are very different. There's no letter substitution (u for you) no 'l33t h4xx0r' typing, and most notably no smilies or other emoticons. This is the first of the logs. There are 25 more. If everyone likes them, I'll continue to post maybe one a week because I have to type each one in by hand and it's a pain to do it but I thought people might be interested. Let me know if you want to see more.
Also, I have attempted to preserve all formatting and typos as in the original document.
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NOTE: M T AUTHOR: Jad NOTE NUMBER: 1
DATE: 80/08/07 RESPONSES: 11 TIME: 17.46.55.
Note is M T. it looks like I got the first note for a long time.
Used to be able to get the first note a whole lot and this is the first
time in a couple of months. Does it mean my life is improved? That I
have been granted superiority over all beings? Possibly...Anyway, so
this note won’t be a total loss, I might as well say the first prototyp
s-ship will be ready for showing on the 12th (haapy birthday to me) but
it won’t be doing a whole lot. There are many, many things that have
gone untested and untried...
Jad, Romulan Emperor.
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AUTHOR: David TIME: 17.55.22. DATE:80/08/07.
But what about the Printouts?
David of #6091.
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AUTHOR: Jad TIME: 19.18.50. DATE:80/08/07.
Don't ask me. I didn't clear the notes. Probably Lazarus is hiding
the prints on Greg's account...
Jad, Romulan Emperor.
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AUTHOR: Lazarus TIME: 11.44.48. DATE:80/08/08.
Sorry David. I put the message that Note would be
down for about 15 minutes (actually it was only 7) then started
the printer program, then cleared the c0mm0n (after I was sure
the printer program had a copy of the c0mm0n). That program
takes some time to run, so Note was up long before it was fin-
ished. Notout prints are now on 8859 ("and notout2"---Gelnda).
Lazarus
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AUTHOR: Lazarus TIME: 11.52.06. DATE:80/08/08.
By the way, because of an overdue Cobol
YECHH!!!
program, I have
been slacking off on some of the responses I should have made,
so, I wish you a belated Happy Birthday and wishes for many
more.
Lazarus
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AUTHOR: Lazarus TIME: 12.52.56. DATE:80/08/08.
I went back to the old version of Note a little early
today, because I will not be here from this afternoon
till sunday evening. (Going home for the weekend, yayyy!!!)
So all you bums who didn't get on till 4, you could have at
12:30, heheheheheheheh.
Lazarus
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AUTHOR: mr taxi TIME: 20.14.28. DATE:80/08/08.
I get up at 4:00 in the afternoon. Sometimes I watch television
for fun. I try calling my friend and asks if he wants to eat
breakfast. If he does not want to I will make breakfast myself.
I get all done with breakfast by 6 and then I like to go to my
friends house or to school and use the terminal. I havenot been able
to write a lot of notes because I was tired. People willnot send
me good mail lots of time. Lots of times people send me those
bits that make me go off the computer. I do not like that. I eat
lunch at 11 and then I go and drive my little taxi at midnight.
I always work midnights. I donot have to ware a uniform when
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AUTHOR: mr taxi TIME: 20.18.57. DATE:80/08/08.
I drive my little taxi. I made up my own kind of uniform because
I think they are neet. I like to ware blue jeans and a special
T-shirt that I had made. It says on the front Mr. Taxi and on
the back it says A Working Man. On the front I have a picture
of my little taxi. It cost a lot to make the shirt that way but
all my fares like it real good. I wear an old hat that I found
for cab drivers. It is like a policemans hat but it doesnot have
a badge on it. It says Mr. Taxi in the center of the hat instead.
It looks real good and my fares like that to. I think I have the
best little job in the whole world.
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AUTHOR: jad TIME: 23.33.07. DATE:80/08/08.
(Making the same mistakes three times is unforgivable.)
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AUTHOR: David TIME: 01.13.45. DATE:80/08/09.
Not unforgivable...just practiced.
)David of #6091
c/o me too jad.
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AUTHOR: mr taxi TIME: 19.47.05. DATE:80/08/10.
I do not understand.
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AUTHOR: Jad TIME: 23.49.42. DATE:80/08/10.
Well Mr. Taxi, don't feel bad. It isn't your first time.
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- The Famous Eccles
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That's marvelous.
quote:Blixt wrote this in a previous episode of "goku: THE SERIES":
You clearly have no clue what you are talking about. There is a set number of "evil" in the world at all times. When a body with an "evil" soul dies, the soul moves on to an infant. It is possible to remove this taint with exorcism, although it is a very hard process that can leave the person dead. A few people who have been controlled by Satan is Hitler and Ghengis Khan.
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Wow, this is pretty :cool:.
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Feb 8, 2003 17:04
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- Gyro
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Bounce, motherfucker: bounce!
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that's not a forum log. if it were from an actual forum, it would have included at least one link to an ASCII goatse.
If you cross Fox News Channel, it's not just me, it's [Fox President] Roger Ailes who will go after you. I'm the street guy out front making loud noises about the issues, but Ailes operates behind the scenes, strategizes and makes things happen so that one day BAM! The person gets what's coming to them but never sees it coming. Look at Al Franken, one day he's going to get a knock on his door and life as he's known it will change forever. That day will happen, trust me.
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mr taxi is creepy and weird.
For questions, comments, or other inquiries please send mail. Hamblamos espanol.
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Feb 8, 2003 17:11
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- fixelbrumpf
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I'm blown away by the high-quality spelling and grammar.
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Feb 8, 2003 17:11
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- nbv4
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do you have a scanner? if you do, you can use an OCR program to convert to text for you.
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Feb 8, 2003 17:12
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- Flying-Squid
- Aug 30, 2002
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The Original Flying Squid
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Yeah, well in 1980 you actually had to be intelligent in order to use a computer, especially a networked one.
Also, Mr. Taxi gets weirder later but to give him credit, he never does actually let up his gimmick.
EDIT: Yes, I have a scanner but it's six years old and hence REALLY SLOW. Plus, OCR would add errors whereas my typing can be double-checked to ensure that only the original typos are represented.
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- pipebomb
- May 12, 2001
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Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.
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quote:Flying-Squid came out of the closet to say:
Yeah, well in 1980 you actually had to be intelligent in order to use a computer, especially a networked one.
Also, Mr. Taxi gets weirder later but to give him credit, he never does actually let up his gimmick.
EDIT: Yes, I have a scanner but it's six years old and hence REALLY SLOW. Plus, OCR would add errors whereas my typing can be double-checked to ensure that only the original typos are represented.
being serious here; if you take that to kinkos, i'll paypal you a couple bucks to offset costs. that's really interesting and i'd like to read more.
but, not as OCR, i wanna see the pages and formatting.
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- Flying-Squid
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quote:pipebomb came out of the closet to say:
being serious here; if you take that to kinkos, i'll paypal you a couple bucks to offset costs. that's really interesting and i'd like to read more.
but, not as OCR, i wanna see the pages and formatting.
I was planning on scanning in a couple example pages just to show what it's like. I'll do that when I get to my office where the scanner is. Would that work for you?
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- JRock
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quote:Flying-Squid came out of the closet to say:
and how some things are very different. There's no letter substitution (u for you) no 'l33t h4xx0r' typing, and most notably no smilies or other emoticons. This
Back in the day people were :cool:er
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Feb 8, 2003 17:23
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- nbv4
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On groups.google.com they have a section for historical usenet posts. I think the earliest message they have archived is from 1981. They also have the first post where someone uses ASCII smiles, and I think it was from 1983 or something. This is very interesting.
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Feb 8, 2003 17:26
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- Jul 8, 2000
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I dunno, guys. I make up my own kind of uniform because I think they are neet, too.
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quote:Malevolent came out of the closet to say:
I love you
lets MAKE BABIES
edit: different response necessary
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Feb 8, 2003 17:30
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- Flying-Squid
- Aug 30, 2002
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The Original Flying Squid
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Well... turns out that everyone really is on the internet. After crossposting this on a local forum I frequent, it was replied to by the actual guy who wrote it! It wasn't actually part of ARPAnet which doesn't strictly make it part of internet history but since it is a format which has become commonplace on the internet now (although it's evolved) and it was from a network which eventually itself became part of the internet, I think it still counts. Here's the message I got on the other forum:
quote:How nostalgic. "Note" is a program that I wrote in roughly 1978 for the CDC 6600/172 mainframe. It was written in the COMPASS assembly language.
I would appreciate getting copies of anything you have. In particular, I lost the source code to the system (although I still have hope that it's on one of the 9-track reels I have in the computer museum).
I can give you some background on the characters mentioned there.
Lazarus was/is one John Bayh who left Bloomington in about 1981 to go out to Silicon Valley and work for HP (where he still is as far as I know).
JAD lived in Merrillville and accessed the system through IUNW. Mr. Taxi was Bill (William) Mihalo. He taught sociology also at IUNW.
David is David Roth who went to Columbus to work for AT&T. I recently got an email from him.
"Greg" mentioned is me. 8859 was my account on the CDC.
The system had nothing to do with DARPA and was about as far from the Internet as you could get.
greg
Bloomington is Bloomington, Indiana about 50 miles south of Indianapolis where Greg and I both live and where IU's main campus is. IUNW is, as you probably guessed, the Northwest campus of Indiana University and Merrillville is practically a suburb of Chicago. So, even if this was a limited network, it still had a several hundred mile range.
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Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains?
It must be so boring.
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quote:Flying-Squid came out of the closet to say:
Well... turns out that everyone really is on the internet. After crossposting this on a local forum I frequent, it was replied to by the actual guy who wrote it! It wasn't actually part of ARPAnet which doesn't strictly make it part of internet history but since it is a format which has become commonplace on the internet now (although it's evolved) and it was from a network which eventually itself became part of the internet, I think it still counts. Here's the message I got on the other forum:
Bloomington is Bloomington, Indiana about 50 miles south of Indianapolis where Greg and I both live and where IU's main campus is. IUNW is, as you probably guessed, the Northwest campus of Indiana University and Merrillville is practically a suburb of Chicago. So, even if this was a limited network, it still had a several hundred mile range.
Still all very neat. Thanks for posting it.
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- Flying-Squid
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quote:Sasquatch! came out of the closet to say:
Fixed it for you.
You know what's really funny about that is that David Lee Roth actually did go to my High School... Bloomington High School South. The (completely unsubstantiated) rumor always was that he failed every class but music theory.
Although it's hard to buy. I mean, come on... would David Lee Roth have been able to pass a music theory class?
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I gave up my OG title for this.
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quote:Flying-Squid came out of the closet to say:
You know what's really funny about that is that David Lee Roth actually did go to my High School... Bloomington High School South. The (completely unsubstantiated) rumor always was that he failed every class but music theory.
Although it's hard to buy. I mean, come on... would David Lee Roth have been able to pass a music theory class?
Well....Axl Rose is from Lafayette so there [/PurdueFan]
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How much would it suck to get called a newb by someone with a 8/80 registration date?
On a side note, its probably pretty likely that the source code greg is looking for on those 9 track reels is still there. When I used to work in the network center at my school they had a library of those things. There is some weird law where they have to store stuff like that for 20 years, despite the fact that there is nowhere you can actually buy a reader. On slow days I would have to respool them.
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Those posts are older than I am...BARELY
Nice post, sir.
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It's That Salty Bloody Ham!!
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haha
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- SweeneyTodd
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I'd love to see more. Family attic archaeology is great, Internet history is too, the two combined are drat cool.
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Wow, not a single "lol."
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- sigtrap
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code: RESPONSE TO NOTE: M T
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AUTHOR: Jad TIME: 19.18.50. DATE:80/08/07.
Don't ask me. I didn't clear the notes. Probably Lazarus is hiding
the prints on Greg's account...
Jad, Romulan Emperor.
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AUTHOR: sigtrap TIME: 11.44.48. DATE:80/08/08.
hay guys wutz going on in this printout? :cool:
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- squeegee
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Jesus, I wasn't even born yet then. I feel so young and useless.
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code: RESPONSE TO NOTE: M T
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AUTHOR: Jad TIME: 19.18.50. DATE:80/08/07.
Don't ask me. I didn't clear the notes. Probably Lazarus is hiding
the prints on Greg's account...
Jad, Romulan Emperor.
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AUTHOR: sigtrap TIME: 11.44.48. DATE:80/08/08.
hay guys wutz going on in this printout?
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AUTHOR: kmitnick TIME: 11.47.48. DATE:80/08/08.
hay d00ds im ha><><0ring ur gibsons
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AUTHOR: sigtrap TIME: 12.52.56. DATE:80/08/08.
o poo poo my mainframe is makeing a funney noize and its printing out all ove
rthe place wut happened
[edit]mitnick yuo bastard
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quote:wernox came out of the closet to say:
Well....Axl Rose is from Lafayette so there [/PurdueFan]
Woah, did he grow up here? (I wasn't born in Lafayette, but I go to Purdue.)
Also, to Flying-Squid: what network was this a part of? Was Purdue on this network? Don't IU and Purdue still have their own private network?
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I want to thank the man that started this thread, it's very interesting.
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quote:Flying-Squid came out of the closet to say:
Mr. Taxi was Bill (William) Mihalo. He taught sociology also at IUNW.
I'd have loved to have taken his class.
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- LunixKing
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How long before we see a "Mr. Taxi" gimmick account?
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code: RESPONSE TO NOTE: M T
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AUTHOR: Jad TIME: 19.18.50. DATE:80/08/07.
Don't ask me. I didn't clear the notes. Probably Lazarus is hiding
the prints on Greg's account...
Jad, Romulan Emperor.
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AUTHOR: sigtrap TIME: 11.44.48. DATE:80/08/08.
hay guys wutz going on in this printout?
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AUTHOR: kmitnick TIME: 11.47.48. DATE:80/08/08.
hay d00ds im ha><><0ring ur gibsons
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AUTHOR: sigtrap TIME: 12.52.56. DATE:80/08/08.
o poo poo my mainframe is makeing a funney noize and its printing out all ove
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AUTHOR: straightrazor TIME: 17.40.02. DATE:80/08/09.
'Sup guys? I just went to Chess King and got the raddest parachute pants. They
were playing Duran Duran and I thought that was too New Wave for me, but I stayed
long enough to get a PCH vest.
I bet I spent 5 dollars in quarters playing Space Invaders today. I like it more
than pinball, even though pinball is only a dime. Have you heard anything about
Pac Man? I think Eastland mall is getting one.
So the Space Shuttle seems interesting. I like the tiles idea. Let's just hope
they don't keep falling off!
I got a raise today. $2.60 an hour. If the new Mustangs are $8,500 how long will
it take me to pay that off? Oh, yea! That reminds me! My brother just turned 18
so he is going to the 7-11 to buy beer today! He also got a job with Eastern
Airlines! So we're celebrating. He seems to be getting over that weird pneumonia
he got from that Hatian flight attendant. Let's hope!
Well, I'm going to the Record Bar. I need a stylus for my turntable. And I think
I'm going to pick up an AC/DC album. FOUR DOLLARS! God, you can see them live for
that much!
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