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[*] posted on 9-9-2022 at 20:04
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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[*] posted on 10-9-2022 at 00:39


I knew that one, but I recently found out that a spool, such as for a printer, stands for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line.







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[*] posted on 10-9-2022 at 13:17


I knew what spooling is in a computer system, but I didn’t realise it was an acronym.



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[*] posted on 21-3-2023 at 20:54


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/21/gunned-down-burned-naz...

The truth behind the story of Bambi.




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[*] posted on 22-3-2023 at 08:17


Interesting, Disney had a habit of schmaltzing existing stories



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[*] posted on 22-3-2023 at 21:13


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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