Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
"And where does Al Gore think he was involved in this realm." -- If I remember right, he worked for one of the companies that engineered the early ARPANET ... don't remember if he was on one of the engineering groups or not, nor do I really care to research it completely... :P but that's what I remember from that "controversy".

-tg
Actually, the story behind the "controversy" is that Gore never made the statement that was attributed to him. The statement came from a conservative poster paraphrasing something he said in a speech in NH. Even the evil, green, Gingrinch said that what Gore had actually stated was correct. Not that anybody cares.

My father worked for DEC for most of his career. I remember hanging out at his office playing on their network a bit. They had some cool games for the time, such as Adventure, which was similar to Zork (in fact, it might have been Zork, or perhaps they had both). The scene that really stuck with me was when I came to a clearing in the forest with a grating in the ground. I never could get the darn thing open. Many years later, when I was in grad school, I went caving with a few people to Wayne's Lost cave in Indiana. The entrance was through a hole in the ground located in a clearing in a forest. Yes, there was a grating over it. Tooke me well over a decade to get that darn key, but it was worth it. Fortunately, we had plenty of light for the 1000' belly crawl to the maze of twisty little passages, and nobody was eaten by a grue. It was a near thing, though, and that dwarf with the bloody axe was murder to get by.

Our backup plan involves a gang of drunken, but very fit, Hell's Angels geocaching our data in remote locations around the country. The security is pretty good, but restoring can be difficult. And to whoever took the July 2010 tape from the box and swapped it for the set of naked playing cards, we'd really like it back.