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do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

Sherm Pendley sherm.pendley at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 11:15:25 EST 2011 
"Captain Obvious" <udodenko at users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> XL> ... i recall, i stopped doing Mathematica in 1998 because it's a
> XL> career dead-end as a programing lang, and dived into the utterly
> XL> idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah
> XL> Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp from Mathematica).)
>
> I guess you're calling "idiotic" everything you're too lazy to understand.

That's Xah for you.

> XL> today were under 10 in the 1990s. They wouldn't know what was CGI, and
> XL> no amount of explanation can tell them exactly it was like, because it
> XL> has become HISTORY — if you didn't live it, you can't feel it.
>
> CGI is still used in some places today, hello?

Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avatar.

What? Why is everyone looking at me that way? ;-)

sherm--

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