THERE BE OO HERE.
December 15, 2004 10:01 PM Subscribe
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The mystery deepens: alcyone.com is registered to one Erik Max Francis. Considering how impressed he is that he's been on teh intarweb since 1995, I deduced that he must have been a Usenet dork back when AOL users were just starting to ruin the whole thing. I was richly rewarded with a long posting history including the use of "oo" to mean TWO things:
* Infinity
* Object-oriented programming
It seems our boy is a well-enough rounded nerd to opine about pedestrian limits problems for the better part of a decade, while also whinging about PERL's lousy oo.
And let's not forget Big-O Notation, (or "Goatse man notation" as we call it 'round my office).
The question is why we should care.
posted by jewzilla at 10:43 PM on December 15, 2004
* Infinity
* Object-oriented programming
It seems our boy is a well-enough rounded nerd to opine about pedestrian limits problems for the better part of a decade, while also whinging about PERL's lousy oo.
And let's not forget Big-O Notation, (or "Goatse man notation" as we call it 'round my office).
The question is why we should care.
posted by jewzilla at 10:43 PM on December 15, 2004
Darkman - why back in the day we had to walk 6 miles in a driving snow storm to get coal to fire up the commodore 64 to access The Source @ 300 baud and then...
posted by arse_hat at 11:04 PM on December 15, 2004
posted by arse_hat at 11:04 PM on December 15, 2004
heh.
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 11:10 PM on December 15, 2004
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 11:10 PM on December 15, 2004
Those were the days when you included your mailing address in your sig.
Not us 'leet kids.
*Reminisces when elite actually meant something...*
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 2:56 AM on December 16, 2004
Not us 'leet kids.
*Reminisces when elite actually meant something...*
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 2:56 AM on December 16, 2004
Previously brought to you by (who else?) Settle, who flashed across the face of MeFi for a couple of months in 2002 before being shot down by cruel men without an ounce of mad poetry in their souls.
posted by languagehat at 5:02 AM on December 16, 2004
posted by languagehat at 5:02 AM on December 16, 2004
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