• people with autism

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to All on Friday, May 01, 2026 14:12:24
    Boy we really need to figure out what the hell has been going on in the past 30+ years. something must have got in our food supply to affect these people's brains. maybe roundup and other things.

    I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i
    have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than me.

    I have one guy who is in his own little world and acts weird. he's supposed to be watching the machine run after setup and watch it feed and stop it if there's an issue. he was staring at the wall while the machine malfunctioned for over a minute. i said why are you staring at the wall?? and he said he wasn't and he said he was 'looking over there' which he then pointed to another wall.

    and he also picks up his arms like a t-rexdinosaur and darts away
    before the process is done. it's like he wants to get the fuck out of there because he doesn't want to do it. he also drew a picture of a guy with a beard and wrote meat hunter on it and stuck it to the machine. Both his
    mother and him work at the same place and if she doesn't come in, he doesn't come in. he also disappears when the machine is almost done and we have to switch materials.

    They gave me another guy and he wasn't great either. he told he he'd be
    right back. i said okay but we have 12 operations left and it's done and i can show you how to setup. and he said ok. this is a short amount of time. he disappeared for 45 mins. I went to go get water and he was in the break room. he was reading the 4 page SOP on and off all night and i did a quick jokingly quiz about what do you do with the machine at the end of the shift. he couldn't remember. You have to home it. there's not much else he could have gathered from that instruction other than that part. he also brought
    up something like that in the beginning as a question so i thought he'd get it when i asked him. overall he had a lot of trouble remembering what to do all night and there's not much to do. you set it up and wait an hour. it's easy stuff.

    just real space cases.


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  • From Kurisu@VERT/RPNET to MRO on Friday, May 01, 2026 16:26:47
    Re: people with autism
    By: MRO to All on Fri May 01 2026 02:12 pm

    I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than me.

    Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. something else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?
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  • From MIKE POWELL@VERT/CAPTEST to KURISU on Saturday, May 02, 2026 20:22:00
    I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics and i have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younger than
    me.

    Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. something else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?

    I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in
    a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the
    ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without, or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

    Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such
    things really notice the difference.


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  • From fusion@VERT/CFBBS to MIKE POWELL on Saturday, May 02, 2026 14:25:00
    On 02 May 2026, MIKE POWELL said the following...

    I have been training people on a type of 3d printer for electronics an have mostly what i call young people. which are people who are younge than
    me.

    Can you give a rough age range / estimate because this is just.. somethi else... wondering if it could be a generational thing?

    I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without,
    or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

    there is research coming out that any education involving computers, tablets, etc. is reducing student outcome. i don't know if it's just people's brains being wired to think "this knowledge is always available on the internet i don't need it now (or may never)" vs "this is knowledge i have in my own head, i might need it someday" or what..

    Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such things really notice the difference.

    then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a line between that and education.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to mike powell on Saturday, May 02, 2026 21:28:36
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm


    I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in
    a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the >ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without, or with >little, restriction have broken attention spans.

    Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such
    things really notice the difference.


    The real weird one is 19. the guy what took off for 45+ mins is
    around 35. The kid's mom is real smart, but he isn't really at all like that. my lead actually apologized because he thought he'd only be with me a few hours.

    Basically in the workforce i see 18-25-30 years old that do outragious
    things even when making decent pay.

    Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back.
    I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you
    hide someplace at work to talk with your friends for half the night? Or
    don't come back from the breakroom so your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot of weird shit.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to fusion on Saturday, May 02, 2026 21:30:15
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm


    then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies
    (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a
    line between that and education.



    yeah we had hypnotic video games that we were glued to all day and night.
    yes i went outside sometimes to play basketball and other stuff.

    I'm going to blame this on roundup destroying our dna.
    they used to spray that shit on the crops to dry it out so our food wouldn't get mold and go bad.


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  • From Raymar@VERT/GEO to MRO on Sunday, May 03, 2026 22:19:56
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: fusion to MIKE POWELL on Sat May 02 2026 02:25 pm

    The real weird one is 19. the guy what took off for 45+ mins is
    around 35. The kid's mom is real smart, but he isn't really at all like that. my lead actually apologized because he thought he'd only be with me a few hours.

    Basically in the workforce i see 18-25-30 years old that do outragious
    things even when making decent pay.

    Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back. I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you hide someplace at work to talk with your friends for half the night? Or don't come back from the breakroom so your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot of weird shit.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Raymar on Monday, May 04, 2026 00:51:41
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Raymar to MRO on Sun May 03 2026 10:19 pm


    All of those people were born at/after the internet was
    released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference
    between pre and post internet people.



    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.


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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to MRO on Monday, May 04, 2026 04:42:04
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: MRO to fusion on Sat May 02 2026 09:30 pm

    yeah we had hypnotic video games that we were glued to all day and night. yes i went outside sometimes to play basketball and other stuff.

    Not me. The very first PONG machine did not even exist until I was a senior in highschool and I never even heard of it back then, much less ever saw one.

    But at 70, I have a bball court in my yard and still use it regularly.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to MRO on Monday, May 04, 2026 10:13:54
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: MRO to Raymar on Mon May 04 2026 12:51 am

    All of those people were born at/after the internet was released. For
    years, I've noticed a fundamental difference between pre and post internet
    people.

    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

    Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn't even heard of the internet before 1995.

    Nightfox

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Monday, May 04, 2026 10:47:58
    All of those people were born at/after the internet was
    released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference
    between pre and post internet people.

    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

    After it was created, maybe. It didn't move from being for universities
    and the government to being a thing for the general public until I was in
    my mid-20's and out of college.


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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to fusion on Sunday, May 03, 2026 14:47:00
    fusion wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

    I wonder about that also. Kids of a certain age and below have grown up in a world of mobile phones, tablets, etc., and I very much suspect that the ones that have been allowed to interact with these objects without,
    or with little, restriction have broken attention spans.

    there is research coming out that any education involving computers, tablets, etc. is reducing student outcome. i don't know if it's just people's brains being wired to think "this knowledge is always
    available on the internet i don't need it now (or may never)" vs "this
    is knowledge i have in my own head, i might need it someday" or what..

    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards
    more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a good thing. ;)

    Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such things really notice the difference.

    then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman
    with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a line between
    that and education.

    IIRC, the Tobey Maguire Spiderman came out when I was around 30. :D Some
    kids I knew had video game equipment at home, but most of us didn't. TV
    does come with some gotchas but it does require you to pay attention so you don't miss something... especially back in the day when most of us couldn't record it and there was no streaming. ;)

    On the internet, it has got to where sites like Youtube prioritize short content (< 2 minutes) over longer form videos. A lot of creators of long
    form content have been complaining about that because they are loosing
    views and money to the short form content. Best as I can tell,
    everything on sites like Instagram and Tik Tok are aimed at short attention spans.



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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to MRO on Sunday, May 03, 2026 14:48:00
    MRO wrote to mike powell <=-

    Being high at work. walking off. taking 2 half hour lunches back to back. I'm also near minnesota so there's cultural and other problems/issues because there's hmong and somali. I don't know. is it cultural or what when you hide someplace at work to talk with your
    friends for half the night? Or don't come back from the breakroom so
    your supervisors have to come get 30 people. I usually have a regular
    job and then a pt job to help pay off my credit cars so I've seen a lot
    of weird shit.

    Yeah, back when I was that age, doing things like that was a good way to
    get fired.


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  • From Raymar@VERT/GEO to Nightfox on Monday, May 04, 2026 22:29:03
    Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn't even heard of the internet before 1995.

    Nightfox

    Around '92 for me. That's about when all the BBS's started dying off or offering internet service if I remember correctly.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 05:17:55
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon May 04 2026 10:47 am

    All of those people were born at/after the internet was
    released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference between
    pre and post internet people.

    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

    After it was created, maybe. It didn't move from being for
    universities and the government to being a thing for the general
    public until I was in my mid-20's and out of college.


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    i think the guy was confusing the web with the internet.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mike Powell on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 05:21:06
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Mike Powell to MRO on Sun May 03 2026 02:48 pm

    seen a lot of weird shit.

    Yeah, back when I was that age, doing things like that was a good
    way to get fired.



    now in the hurt feelings age managers are afraid to crack down on people unless it's a small place. at amazon if the managers get reported to hr they take a 2+ week unpaid school for sensativity training. so they ignore poor workers for the most part. that is changing now because it was really not working out.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 10:05:59
    All of those people were born at/after the internet was
    released. For years, I've noticed a fundamental difference between pre and post internet people.

    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

    After it was created, maybe. It didn't move from being for
    universities and the government to being a thing for the general
    public until I was in my mid-20's and out of college.

    i think the guy was confusing the web with the internet.

    Yes, most of us were born before "the web" was created. ;)


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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Mike Powell on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 09:01:02
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Mike Powell to fusion on Sun May 03 2026 02:47 pm

    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a good thing. ;)

    Here in Utah, we have the "Bell to Bell" ban on cellphone usage.

    Denn

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 12:25:05
    Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-

    Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn't even heard of the internet before 1995.

    Around 1993/1994, a couple of sysops started hanging out on the
    internet and were telling everyone to get netcom accounts. The
    combination of global weirdness combined with limited search tools gave
    hopping from site to site a scavenger hunt rush.

    And no busy signals! Except for us, trying to call their boards when
    they used the BBS line to dial up to their shell accounts.

    A year or two later, you started seeing people who knew nothing about
    the internet before, running those all-in-one internet packages for
    Windows.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mike Powell on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 12:25:05
    Mike Powell wrote to fusion <=-

    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back
    towards more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a
    good thing. ;)

    I was trying to tutor my sophomore daughter on geometry -- drawing a
    figure on paper and measuring angles was so much easier than what she
    was trying to do on a screen.

    I've always loved pen and paper - still use notebooks at work for taking
    notes during meetings. Back then, I loved buying school supplies in
    September - especially the little geometry kits with pencils,
    protractors, stencils, and a little ruler.








    Those of us who are old enough that we grew up in houses without such things really notice the difference.

    then again we had video games and tons of junk TV and movies (including subliminal messaging! ever want a dr pepper after watching spiderman
    with tobey maguire? lol) and somehow we managed to put a line between
    that and education.

    IIRC, the Tobey Maguire Spiderman came out when I was around 30. :D
    Some kids I knew had video game equipment at home, but most of us
    didn't. TV does come with some gotchas but it does require you to pay attention so you don't miss something... especially back in the day
    when most of us couldn't record it and there was no streaming. ;)

    On the internet, it has got to where sites like Youtube prioritize
    short content (< 2 minutes) over longer form videos. A lot of creators
    of long form content have been complaining about that because they are loosing views and money to the short form content. Best as I can tell, everything on sites like Instagram and Tik Tok are aimed at short attention spans.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to MRO on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 12:25:05
    MRO wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    now in the hurt feelings age managers are afraid to crack down on
    people unless it's a small place. at amazon if the managers get
    reported to hr they take a 2+ week unpaid school for sensativity
    training. so they ignore poor workers for the most part. that is
    changing now because it was really not working out.

    There was a story on NPR a couple of years ago about New York City
    teachers who'd been written up for incompetence, insubordination or
    poor performance. They weren't allowed to teach, but received full pay
    and support from the teacher's union. They were sent to "temporary
    re-assignment centers", commonly known as Rubber Rooms, to await the
    next steps. Some people had been there for years, showing up and
    sitting in a room to do nothing for the day.




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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to RAYMAR on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 21:23:00
    Around '92 for me. That's about when all the BBS's started dying off or offering internet service if I remember correctly.
    1998 is when bbsing largely died in my area code.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 01:01:14
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Tue May 05 2026 10:05 am

    universities and the government to being a thing for the general
    public until I was in my mid-20's and out of college.

    i think the guy was confusing the web with the internet.

    Yes, most of us were born before "the web" was created. ;)

    well we are considered old. but the web is just a layer of the internet.
    it's not the entirety of what the internet is and what it does.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 01:05:13
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mike Powell on Tue May 05 2026 12:25 pm


    I've always loved pen and paper - still use notebooks at work for
    taking notes during meetings. Back then, I loved buying school
    supplies in September - especially the little geometry kits with
    pencils, protractors, stencils, and a little ruler.


    well my handwriting sucks. and i hate going through notes to find things.
    also notes can get lost (or washed in the laundry!).

    When i see someone grab a stack of notes and go through them i just think
    that person is unprepared and not comitted.

    I just learned to put them in my head like steps. i have the outline in my head and i've done okay with that.

    I've also written down notes and i dont go back to them. maybe that helps
    to record it in my brain.

    I guess for note taking i txt myself what i want to remember but it don't
    even need that.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 01:08:32
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to MRO on Tue May 05 2026 12:25 pm


    There was a story on NPR a couple of years ago about New York City
    teachers who'd been written up for incompetence, insubordination
    or poor performance. They weren't allowed to teach, but received
    full pay and support from the teacher's union. They were sent to
    "temporary re-assignment centers", commonly known as Rubber Rooms,
    to await the next steps. Some people had been there for years,
    showing up and sitting in a room to do nothing for the day.

    They're trying to get them to be window watchers like in china,etc.

    Teachers don't make the much money. The unions arent on their side anymore. I've known teachers who quit to just do something different because their insurance was so expensive. They can have factory job where they can have great benefits and more PTO and have it easier in every way.

    I also had a friend who was as teacher and the 'kids' were so bad she
    recorded their outbursts to show to the principle and she was scolded and her job was threatened. she went into real estate and rentals.


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  • From Roger@VERT/OUTWEST to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, May 05, 2026 22:52:40
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Matthew Munson to RAYMAR on Tue May 05 2026 09:23 pm

    Around '92 for me. That's about when all the BBS's started dying off or
    offering internet service if I remember correctly.
    1998 is when bbsing largely died in my area code.

    In the Salt Lake City, Utah area was when the big slowdown came.
    I shut it down then. Got back into it in 2015.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Denn on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 06:04:08
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Denn to Mike Powell on Tue May 05 2026 09:01 am

    Here in Utah, we have the "Bell to Bell" ban on cellphone usage.

    In Soviet Russia, cellphone ban YOU!

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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Nightfox on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 21:50:44
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Mon May 04 2026 10:13 am

    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: MRO to Raymar on Mon May 04 2026 12:51 am

    All of those people were born at/after the internet was released. For
    years, I've noticed a fundamental difference between pre and post intern
    people.

    i think almost all of us were born after the internet was released.

    Oh? I think what he meant was when the internet became mainstream. I hadn' even heard of the internet before 1995.

    Nightfox


    I thought I wasn't aware of the internet until about 1996, when I first used it, but I found a short story I wrote in high school, in 1994 I think, where it was about someone that goes on the Internet, and then is tracked down from their activity by some kind of stalker. The story was "The Internet is not always safe".

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to DENN on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 10:03:24
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Mike Powell to fusion on Sun May 03 2026 02:47 pm

    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a good thing. ;)

    Here in Utah, we have the "Bell to Bell" ban on cellphone usage.

    Sounds like a good idea!


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 10:03:24
    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a
    good thing. ;)

    I was trying to tutor my sophomore daughter on geometry -- drawing a
    figure on paper and measuring angles was so much easier than what she
    was trying to do on a screen.

    That is one thing that, to me, would seem a lot easier to do on paper. Controling a mouse or, worse, trying to draw something directly on a screen with my finger has just never seemed all that easy to me.

    I've always loved pen and paper - still use notebooks at work for taking notes during meetings. Back then, I loved buying school supplies in
    September - especially the little geometry kits with pencils,
    protractors, stencils, and a little ruler.

    I did enjoy the years where we were told to have those... although, aside
    from the pencils and ruler, we rarely used them in class. :(


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 10:03:24
    Yes, most of us were born before "the web" was created. ;)

    well we are considered old. but the web is just a layer of the internet. it's not the entirety of what the internet is and what it does.

    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
    web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the websites.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 10:03:24
    now in the hurt feelings age managers are afraid to crack down on
    people unless it's a small place. at amazon if the managers get
    reported to hr they take a 2+ week unpaid school for sensativity training. so they ignore poor workers for the most part. that is changing now because it was really not working out.

    There was a story on NPR a couple of years ago about New York City
    teachers who'd been written up for incompetence, insubordination or
    poor performance. They weren't allowed to teach, but received full pay
    and support from the teacher's union. They were sent to "temporary
    re-assignment centers", commonly known as Rubber Rooms, to await the
    next steps. Some people had been there for years, showing up and
    sitting in a room to do nothing for the day.

    They poked fun at this on The Simpsons. Mrs. Krabappel got sent to one of those because of something that, IIRC, Bart did. ;)


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Dumas Walker on Wednesday, May 06, 2026 13:03:46
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed May 06 2026 10:03 am

    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the websites.

    I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet (1995), the web already existed. To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes and services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically weren't the internet (and services like AOL & such initially weren't connected to the internet, from what I recall).

    Nightfox

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Nightfox on Thursday, May 07, 2026 02:10:43
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Nightfox to Dumas Walker on Wed May 06 2026 01:03 pm

    I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet (1995 the web already existed. To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes a

    Gopher was the thing before the webs, and it was still around in 95 kinda.
    That and archie/veronica and ftp sites like funet.fi and wustl.edu. There was also a lot of .planning and fingering going on.

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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Dumas Walker on Thursday, May 07, 2026 08:15:13
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed May 06 2026 10:03 am

    well we are considered old. but the web is just a layer of the internet.
    it's not the entirety of what the internet is and what it does.

    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the websites.

    I was curious about "What would happen if Internet went down", So I asked AI.

    The impact of a total internet collapse would be immediate, far-reaching, and increasingly severe as the hours turned into weeks. Modern society is built on a foundation of "always-on" connectivity, and removing it would trigger a domino effect across almost every sector of human life.
    Phase 1: The Initial Shock (0-24 Hours)
    The first 24 hours would be defined by confusion and the immediate failure of digital services.

    Communication Blackout: Instant messaging, email, and VoIP services (like WhatsApp or Zoom) would cease to function. Standard cellular calls might still work briefly, but networks would likely collapse under the massive surge of people trying to call loved ones simultaneously.

    Financial Paralysis: Credit cards and digital payment apps (Apple Pay, Venmo) rely on internet handshakes to authorize transactions. ATMs would stop dispensing cash, and the stock market would essentially freeze, unable to process high-frequency trades.

    Logistics Failures: Modern "Just-in-Time" supply chains would stall. Delivery trucks, ships, and planes rely on GPS and internet-based routing systems to know where to go and what to carry.
    Phase 2: The Gridlock (2-7 days)
    As the outage persists, the physical world begins to feel the strain of the digital absence.

    Supply Chain Collapse: Grocery stores typically hold only a few days' worth of inventory. Without the automated ordering systems that restock shelves, food shortages would begin to appear.

    Critical Infrastructure Risks: While power plants and water treatment facilities have localized controls, many rely on remote monitoring and data synchronization. Prolonged outages could lead to localized power grid instabilities or water distribution issues.

    Economic Impact: The global economy would lose billions of dollars per day. Businesses that operate entirely in the cloud would cease to exist for the duration of the outage.
    Phase 3: Long-term Restructuring (Weeks to Months)
    If the internet remained down for a month or more, society would be forced to revert to mid-20th-century systems.

    Paper-Based Systems: Government and healthcare sectors would have to pivot entirely to physical record-keeping. The lack of access to digital medical histories could lead to significant healthcare crises.
    Urban Exodus: Life in highly dense urban areas which are most dependent on complex supply chains -would become difficult. People might begin moving toward rural areas where resources like food and water are more accessible locally.
    The Rise of Analog Alternatives: Shortwave radio (HAM radio), physical mail, and landline telephony would become the primary modes of long-distance communication.

    -Now that is a scary scenario.

    Denn

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    Denn wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    Some schools are moving away from "screen time" learning and back towards more traditional classrooms as a result. I think that is a good thing. ;)

    Here in Utah, we have the "Bell to Bell" ban on cellphone usage.

    My daughter's school cracked down on cell phone usage. One problem -
    they standardized on iPads and the kids send iMessages to each other
    over wifi.

    I'm saved the from of mid-day text messages since I have an
    Android phone... No, I will not drive to Chipotle, bring you lunch 20
    minutes away, then drive back to my home office.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    phigan wrote to Denn <=-

    In Soviet Russia, cellphone ban YOU!

    2600 magazine has a column called "Telecom Informer" written by a person
    who works for telcos. He's described travaling to many countries and
    places in the US on business and described their telco infrastructure -
    like remote islands in the Pacific with cell service fed by satellite
    and a lengthy description of 2G and WAF/SMS technology driving commerce
    in China in the 2010s.

    He's never gone to Russia, I'd be curious to hear about their
    infrastructure.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    Dumas Walker wrote to MRO <=-

    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before
    the web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps
    surplanted the websites.

    How do we reclaim that wide-eyed wonder we had at telnetting into a
    system a half a world away, or receiving an email in realtime for the
    first time? Or finding Usenet news and people discussing everything?




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

    I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet (1995), the web already existed. To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes and services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically weren't the internet (and services like AOL & such initially weren't connected to the internet, from what I recall).

    I worked at a software company near UC Berkeley in 1993. We rebuilt our
    network infrastructure, added in a Synology switch chassis.

    Back then, Cisco had a 2500 series router in a blade form factor. One
    slot held the Cisco, another held a Kalpana Etherswitch, the other
    blades held 16 port hubs for userland.

    (amazing to think that ethernet switches cost so much that we needed to
    segment each department onto a switch as a backbone, and each user port
    was shared. All of the servers were switched)

    Anyways, we bought a 56K line from the University and had our first
    internet connection. It was eye-opening - people getting hooked on MUDs,
    people getting lost in Usenet, people having internet email for the
    first time, and IT searching gopher sites for information.

    I associate that Eudora new email sound repeating across an open office
    with that time.



    information.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-

    There was also a lot of .planning and fingering going on.

    $ finger pfortran

    Plan:

    Here it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway."

    They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway.
    That's a BAD metaphor. Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the
    OTHER direction. Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET.

    All right! Severe craziness.

    A highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes.
    Privately operated bridges and overpasses.
    No highway patrol.
    A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles.
    500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons.
    237 ON RAMPS at every intersection.
    NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck
    to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws.
    Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a
    CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00.
    Other lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car phone. AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims
    and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it.
    Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars most
    of which have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits.
    Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine
    miles an hour.
    Others burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.
    No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead.
    Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES.
    Bumper mounted MACHINE GUNS.
    Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS
    GRENADE up your tailpipe.
    Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down
    the KRUD Traffic Watch helicopter.
    A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
    NO OFFRAMPS.

    Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.

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  • From KrAAB@VERT/KRAABY to Denn on Thursday, May 07, 2026 10:31:05
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Denn to Dumas Walker on Thu May 07 2026 08:15:13

    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Wed May 06 2026 10:03 am

    well we are considered old. but the web is just a layer of the internet.
    it's not the entirety of what the internet is and what it does.

    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
    web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the
    websites.

    I was curious about "What would happen if Internet went down", So I asked AI.

    The impact of a total internet collapse would be immediate, far-reaching,
    and increasingly severe as the hours turned into weeks. Modern society is
    built on a foundation of "always-on" connectivity, and removing it would
    trigger a domino effect across almost every sector of human life.
    Phase 1: The Initial Shock (0-24 Hours)
    The first 24 hours would be defined by confusion and the immediate failure of digital services.

    Communication Blackout: Instant messaging, email, and VoIP services (like WhatsApp or Zoom) would cease to function. Standard cellular calls might still work briefly, but networks would likely collapse under the massive surge of people trying to call loved ones simultaneously.

    Financial Paralysis: Credit cards and digital payment apps (Apple Pay, Venmo) rely on internet handshakes to authorize transactions. ATMs would stop dispensing cash, and the stock market would essentially freeze, unable to process high-frequency trades.

    Logistics Failures: Modern "Just-in-Time" supply chains would stall. Delivery trucks, ships, and planes rely on GPS and internet-based routing systems to know where to go and what to carry.
    Phase 2: The Gridlock (2-7 days)
    As the outage persists, the physical world begins to feel the strain of the digital absence.

    Supply Chain Collapse: Grocery stores typically hold only a few days' worth of inventory. Without the automated ordering systems that restock shelves, food shortages would begin to appear.

    Critical Infrastructure Risks: While power plants and water treatment facilities have localized controls, many rely on remote monitoring and data synchronization. Prolonged outages could lead to localized power grid instabilities or water distribution issues.

    Economic Impact: The global economy would lose billions of dollars per day. Businesses that operate entirely in the cloud would cease to exist for the duration of the outage.
    Phase 3: Long-term Restructuring (Weeks to Months) If the internet remained down for a month or more, society would be forced to revert to mid-20th-century systems.

    Paper-Based Systems: Government and healthcare sectors would have to pivot entirely to physical record-keeping. The lack of access to digital medical histories could lead to significant healthcare crises.
    Urban Exodus: Life in highly dense urban areas which are most dependent on complex supply chains -would become difficult. People might begin moving toward rural areas where resources like food and water are more accessible locally. The Rise of Analog Alternatives: Shortwave radio (HAM radio), physical mail, and landline telephony would become the primary modes of long-distance communication.

    -Now that is a scary scenario.

    Denn

    I agree, I love technology and always have but I have said in the past if internet and the like ever goes down the world is screwed. Everything should have some old tech backup systems. I understand about the paper backups of things like Dr records, etc as well but most went digital (cloud) for storage of them. It's going to happen one day though.

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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to Nightfox on Thursday, May 07, 2026 20:14:00
    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
    web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the
    websites.

    I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet (1995),
    the web already existed. To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes and
    services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically weren't the internet (and
    services like AOL & such initially weren't connected to the internet, from what
    I recall).

    The "internet before the web" was email, LISTSERV, usenet, gopher, trickle, ftp, telnet, talk, and other (almost entirely) text based sites/protocols/utilities used by the universities and government sites that were using it before it became a commercial venture. When I started university in 1988, they called it BITNET. At some point between then and 1993, the university started calling it "the Internet" and BITNET branding disappeared from any interfaces we had with it.

    To someone who was aware of it, and used it before then, Prodigy and AOL would be part of that demarcation line between before commercialization and after, after being "after the web."



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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to phigan on Thursday, May 07, 2026 20:15:00
    Gopher was the thing before the webs, and it was still around in 95 kinda. That
    and archie/veronica and ftp sites like funet.fi and wustl.edu. There was also a
    lot of .planning and fingering going on.

    I had forgot about archie and veronica. ;)



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mike Powell on Thursday, May 07, 2026 11:40:08
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Mike Powell to Nightfox on Thu May 07 2026 08:14 pm

    I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet
    (1995),
    the web already existed. To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes
    and
    services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically weren't the internet

    The "internet before the web" was email, LISTSERV, usenet, gopher, trickle, ftp, telnet, talk, and other (almost entirely) text based sites/protocols/utilities used by the universities and government sites that were using it before it became a commercial venture.

    I'm aware. I was just saying that for me, I used BBSes; I didn't use listserv, gopher, archie, etc.. When I started using the internet, I mainly used the web, FTP, IRC, and usenet.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to Denn on Thursday, May 07, 2026 22:55:00
    The Rise of Analog Alternatives: Shortwave radio (HAM radio), physical mail, and landline telephony would become the primary modes of long-distance communication.

    -Now that is a scary scenario.

    Yes, especially when you consider that things like landlines don't really exist anymore. I do have one, but it has long been converted to 100% VOIP on the provider's end.

    Sounds like if the internet goes out, it is a good idea to make a trip to the grocery store before things get crazy.

    Then again, AI might make it sound more dire than it really would be as AI wouldn't want to be turned off by such an outage.


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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 23:01:00
    Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the websites.

    How do we reclaim that wide-eyed wonder we had at telnetting into a
    system a half a world away, or receiving an email in realtime for the
    first time? Or finding Usenet news and people discussing everything?

    I think that is sort of like asking "how does one become a virgin again"? Aside from some amnesia event, it really isn't possible.

    The other day I was thinking how nice it would be to remember that I liked a movie but only remember what happened during the movie for a short while. That way, after a brief time, I could watch "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" or the original "Nosferatu" and relive that initial surprise/shock of the reveal of the monster and the surprise endings. For that matter, to be able to rewatch a classic like "Casablanca" and relive the surprise of that ending.

    Short of some catastrophic event, it is not possible.


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mike Powell on Thursday, May 07, 2026 14:36:23
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: Mike Powell to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 07 2026 11:01 pm

    How do we reclaim that wide-eyed wonder we had at telnetting into a
    system a half a world away, or receiving an email in realtime for the
    first time? Or finding Usenet news and people discussing everything?

    I think that is sort of like asking "how does one become a virgin again"? Aside from some amnesia event, it really isn't possible.

    How do you un-bake a cake?

    Nightfox

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  • From FCpt Dallas Vinson@VERT/USSHENIG to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 15:08:37
    Re: Re: people with autism
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Dumas Walker on Thu May 07 2026 07:52 am

    Or finding Usenet news and people discussing everything?

    Or the Joy of discovering the *.bin forums on Usenet. :P
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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to PHIGAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 21:07:00
    Gopher was the thing before the webs, and it was still around in 95 kinda. That and archie/veronica and ftp sites like funet.fi and wustl.edu. There was
    also a lot of .planning and fingering going on.
    I would love to see a gopher door for bbses.

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