To the Forum Time Machine We Go!

[SteveO]

I had bookmarked a page on Skype use several years ago and ran across it today. Reading the page, I found this very interesting if not amusing. Snipped the first graf, boldfaced the line of interest:

lepontec wrote:
Re: Skype is just a bloody miracle
Posted by: leptontec (IP Logged)
Date: August 25, 2005 05:14PM

Now, the real use of Skype:
One day my professor went off on this guy because his cell phone rang in class. Yeah, it's rude, but this teacher overly flipped out. So I went to www.facebook.com (it's a way to find people in college) and got the cell phone numbers for a bunch of people in class and used Skype to conference call them. When Skype calls you the caller ID shows up as "01234567890" so everybody answered. 6 people went "hello? hello?" at the same time. It got better when they realized they were talking to each other. Classic.

It would be fun to see other prescient posts like this one re-posted whenever any of us runs across them.

[The UnDoug]

I created my Facebook account back when it was only open to a select number of colleges. I happen to work at one of them. Now it's open to any old riff raff, and look what it's become! :-)

[Jimmypoo]

And see.... with the advances in technology, YOU were doing the above, while when I had my first
psych class, I let three white mice go inside of a small movie theater style classroom - big enough to permit
every-other seating, and staggered by the row (I'd say probably 300 people, because we were a class of 60
taking up the whole thing, with empty seats on each side).

A friend, who knew about it - and barely contained it when 2 different girls screamed as mice looked up at
them from their shoes... asked "Is this part of the final?" and the prof replied "I think someone is testing me!"

And then I felt a stare and looked up to see it a few times.

I was quiet in class, and had missed several days - as my father was sick and I had to drive the chemo
runs, and when the test came, I was a walking "F" for the final exam. No question.

I received a C on the final - and a C in the class. Apparently there was something about white mice and
lab rats that this professor happened to like - and he connected the dots to me.

I was the first in the class - but left, after setting free the wildlife - and came about midway during
entry - and the prof didn't show up until the last minute before the bell -- disorganized, etc., so there
isn't much possibility I was seen.

All three mice were harvested and turned over to the psych sections using mice to run mazes, etc. The
third was seen and hunted down during the test. They sufficiently scattered to be no closer or farther
to me than anyone else.

It's all part of the important legacy I left behind at Indiana University - before I moved to Purdue.

Doesn't beat 6 people answering the phone at the same time, like the Three Stooges, but then a pair
of screams does beat 6 of a kind!

[bazookaman]

You lost me at "And".

Jimmypoo wrote:
And see.... with the advances in technology, YOU were doing the above, while when I had my first
psych class, I let three white mice go inside of a small movie theater style classroom - big enough to permit
every-other seating, and staggered by the row (I'd say probably 300 people, because we were a class of 60
taking up the whole thing, with empty seats on each side).

A friend, who knew about it - and barely contained it when 2 different girls screamed as mice looked up at
them from their shoes... asked "Is this part of the final?" and the prof replied "I think someone is testing me!"

And then I felt a stare and looked up to see it a few times.

I was quiet in class, and had missed several days - as my father was sick and I had to drive the chemo
runs, and when the test came, I was a walking "F" for the final exam. No question.

I received a C on the final - and a C in the class. Apparently there was something about white mice and
lab rats that this professor happened to like - and he connected the dots to me.

I was the first in the class - but left, after setting free the wildlife - and came about midway during
entry - and the prof didn't show up until the last minute before the bell -- disorganized, etc., so there
isn't much possibility I was seen.

All three mice were harvested and turned over to the psych sections using mice to run mazes, etc. The
third was seen and hunted down during the test. They sufficiently scattered to be no closer or farther
to me than anyone else.

It's all part of the important legacy I left behind at Indiana University - before I moved to Purdue.

Doesn't beat 6 people answering the phone at the same time, like the Three Stooges, but then a pair
of screams does beat 6 of a kind!

[Jimmypoo]

I could explain it again... but I'd just type the same thing.


Seeeee --- I wasn't using technology to get people in college to reply in unison. I was using RATS.

[OWC Jamie]

[SDGuy]

SteveO wrote:
I had bookmarked a page on Skype use several years ago and ran across it today. Reading the page, I found this very interesting if not amusing. Snipped the first graf, boldfaced the line of interest:
[quote=lepontec]
...So I went to www.facebook.com (it's a way to find people in college)...

It would be fun to see other prescient posts like this one re-posted whenever any of us runs across them.
On a sort-of related note, I met Taner Halicioglu (facebook employee #1) this past weekend (he's also a UCSD alum, and was at the UCSD 50th anniversary gala as an honored guest). He said that when he arrived there in 2004, facebook had a total of 15 servers. Five years later, he had overseen the architecture growth to ~40,000 servers. He's quite the gaming geek - I checked out from the conversation when he and one of my former classmates started to get deep into a Warcraft/Starcraft discussion...apparently, as a Blizzard employee now, one of the job requirements is to put in so many hours each week playing their products.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

billb wrote:

Three, blind, nice!

[N-OS X-tasy!]

SDGuy wrote:
...apparently, as a Blizzard employee now, one of the job requirements is to put in so many hours each week playing their products.

Tough gig!

[datbeme]

SteveO wrote:
It would be fun to see other prescient posts like this one re-posted whenever any of us runs across them.

I like this one from December 2005:

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