What’s In A Name?

[WannaBeHillBilly]

“Back in high school”. . . I had typewriters! All you young pups don’t know what you missed! <semi P; semi P> I can hear it just like it was yesterday! No games to play, no usernames to create, no passwords or commands to remember. Heck, I’m almost old enough to remember not having to turn the dang thing on! No electricity needed. And speaking of remember, I can’t. I just can’t anymore.

All my computer experience was for work only (beginning in the early 80’s). No games, just floppy disks; a bunch of them, in their very own little organizer, complete with attached, acrylic cover. Oh yeah, good times, none of which I remember. CRS is a real thing, people, which I blame on the rest of my life...birthing babies and raising them - no computer needed, just a lap and loving arms. (I wouldn’t change a thing. )

Nowadays, I do have a laptop that I rarely even turn on anymore and mostly only for my embroidery machines to access the embroidery files. My iPad is great for playing solitaire and my iPhone is great for taking pictures of all my feathered friends. Thank goodness accessing my birds doesn’t require dial-up.

Just ask somebody young what the "cc" in »put me on cc in your mail« actually means…
But don't burst out in laughter or they will call you "boomer"!

 

[Mimi13]

We have the best humor here.

Ain't that right, Duck? @WhatTheDuckingDuck

Yep, most here have a pretty healthy sense of humor. The others? Eh, who cares!

 

[Mimi13]

Does not work everytime

Peanuts County Road 4

Is not much of a name.

But if you had chosen that profession, CR 4 would’ve been a well known road for sure.

 

[Mimi13]

I had so much hope for this name to be attached to you in other ways

It probably does! One he’ll keep to himself.

 

[Mimi13]

Agree, but back in the day it was very much "Bow before me, for I am root." Even back then though, if you gave me physical access to a machine, it was MY machine. No matter how you harden it to keep remote attackers out, the guy standing at the console is always the biggest threat.

I would have been no threat at all.

 

[Molpet]

Umm first pet and road you grew up on names are security questions

 

[Mimi13]

Just ask somebody young what the "cc" in »put me on cc in your mail« actually means…
But don't burst out in laughter or they will call you "boomer"!

Okay, you’ve got me a bit scared. I probably don’t want to know. They did away with the original meaning when there was no such thing as a Carbon Copy anymore, to an updated “courtesy copy” I believe. I think there was another one as well.

 

[duluthralphie]

It probably does! One he’ll keep to himself.

I am always willing to help @sourland I can write a better almost true story on how he got his name..

 

[azurbanclucker]

Just ask somebody young what the "cc" in »put me on cc in your mail« actually means…
But don't burst out in laughter or they will call you "boomer"!

I still get rage-y over reply-all. I'm not going to even attempt to explain a CC or BCC to anyone.

 

[Mimi13]

Umm first pet and road you grew up on names are security questions

This is true. That’s another reason I shudder when people fall for the “get to know me” games circulating on Facebook. And people wonder how/why they’re hacked all the time.