Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 27, 2014

Danae does not comprehend “ancient history” or the outdated customs of that time period……Now fix the internet before she plots to kill someone

Oook! Ook! A performance art team…Ook!

Ooh, Eee…Ooh, Ah Ah….Ting, Tang, Walla Walla Bing Bang….

Come on. The interwebs didn’t go mainstream until 1995, and broadband DSL didn’t see wide adoption until 2001.

I remember in the 90’s being given a demo at Cornell of the WWW when it was about three sites and no graphics!

I’m sooooo old!!!

This is not the generation gap we had heard about in the past; this is the technological gap between the old and the new.

Talk to a wwII radio operator (while you still can)… they remembered morse code phases in rhythmic cadence, like we used to do with songs like the William Tell Overture…

odd…..time warner is having a spotty nation wide outage now.

I’ve read two strips about outages this morning. If the internet dies, people will have to buy newspapers to get their comics.Coincidence?

I’m sure most kids and young adults haven’t got a clue what it was like.

Danae is about to discover that most terrifying of all things: that during the period she was unavailable, the rest of the world continued to exist and function; in fact, it didn’t even notice she was missing.

more than likely an “upgrade”. no r&d done anymore. let the customers beta test it for you.

I now officially HATE THAT KID!!

Remember when one of the fears about kids, was that they spent too much time in front of the TV. Then it was that they spent too much time playing video games. Now if you can pry their noses away from the smart phone, long enough to eat dinner, it is a minor miracle.

Hey, I wonder if the phone still works! Except if you have a digital package, maybe not . . . .

If you know what “vinyl” means, you might be getting old.If you remember floppy disks, you might be getting old.If you have ever used a pay phone, you might be getting old.If you have the patience to wait for something instead of instant satisfaction, you might be getting old.…Gah! I’m getting old!

What luck! Strips are due to the editor four weeks ahead, but today’s headline is the ongoing Time Warner outage.

For years the only way I could talk was by flag semaphore still have trouble with my tonque.

There is a working phone both at a CVS pharmacy along US 17-92 at the intersection with Lake Mary Boulevard, here in Central Florida…

There was the telephone, talking over a cup of coffee, going to see a neighbor down the street, writing letters and getting them……..etc etc etc

Wiley starts this story yesterday… Time Warner Internet goes out today. Coincidence—or evil plot? It would be irresponsible not to speculate!

Ah yes, the old complaint of “kids today don’t even remember a time before the Internet!”

Well, of course they don’t. If you’re a kid, then the Internet is older than you are.

This fact should be obvious to anyone with knowledge of the Internet’s history and some basic arithmetic skills. Or failing that, access to Wikipedia and a calculator.

HTTP dates back to 1991, 23 years ago. The current version of HTTP was defined in January of 1997 (with draft implementations before that), almost 18 years ago.

Email (in its current form) was defined in 1982, 32 years ago. Other email protocols go at least as far back as the ’70s.

TCP/IP goes all the way back to 1974, 40 years ago.

Anybody remember the computers that worked by sorting cards with punch holes in them?

I’ve heard of kids baffled by dial phones.

“Instadrum” is nice.

Hey, I’m so old the only computer we had was the one Mr. Spock was using.

Hm… this takes place in Maine, so they probably have Time Warner for their cable/internet, and TW had a major outage this morning…

A few years back when my son started school his Principal stated that the current generation will have never known life without the Internet.

Hard to believe Danae doesn’t have a cellphone.

We did our work off-line, dialed into the board and uploaded.

It’s funny to consider the looks on people’s faces when you speak of winding a generator to signal an operator so she could connect you with the party you want to talk to.

Arianne, ENG8INE, thanks for the posts….Lots of fun…..You know what I like about this place? You can be goofy and serious at the same time….I like that…Especially because never been able to use one without the other….

Does anybody read these late night posts? Besides, Miller? It’s 9:18 here. That’s only suppertime in Seattle…Um…They do have suppertime in Seattle, right? You never know with those people….Probably too busy riding a bike up a mountain to do yoga….