BBP
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Learned something new today...
Modem stands for modulate demodulate.
And here's why they were so noisy!
https://www.howtogeek.com/670455/why-did-dial-up-modems-screech-and-...
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Calvin
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I knew that one, but I recently found out that a spool, such as for a printer, stands for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line.
Hi there.
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polydigm
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I knew what spooling is in a computer system, but I didn’t realise it was an acronym.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/21/gunned-down-burned-naz...
The truth behind the story of Bambi.
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Eddie RUKidding
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Interesting, Disney had a habit of schmaltzing existing stories
South of the Border
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BBP
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I know... Hunchback of the Notre Dame seemed like a very strange choice when I was in my early teens when it came out, having read the book I'm even
more baffled that Disney would try to make a PG story out of that. Characters flat and only a few things that also appear in the book. Which ends with
the death of Quasimodo and Esmeralda, who walk out of the movie version. You know.
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