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jeffemera

"The web, back in ’92 and ’93, was exclusively used by physicists."

Kind of misleading without qualification, if you ask me. Web, perhaps. But images were flying around all over online communities by this time.

There were plenty of non-physicists on Usenet, Compuserv BBS etc., university systems, The Well and ECHO and MUDs for a number of years before the web launched in 1992.

Many of these folks were quite familiar with telnet-ing in and transferring images via gopher etc (or even CompuServ etc software) before the web itself launched.

Re:Type [100:0] then submit, in any textbox in Facebook on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @11:21AM (#4167428)
Posting @[100:0] results in the following:

Andy Brunner

Re:Ask HN: Startup Movie on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @11:37AM (#4137460)
For laughs re: startups circa 2001 -

"Startup.com", "e-Dreams", "Dot"

Re:FaceBook Stocks Now Stable ~$31.00 on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @02:24PM (#4133349)
It crossed $30 at the close of trading Friday.

Perhaps you mean "up".

Re:Did 37Signals axe Backpack? on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:17PM (#4107882)
Axe them wot.