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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:03 PM
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the internet wasn't created to make fun of people
it was created for universtity researchers to exchange datasets.

thank you homer simpson.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:04 PM
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1. What's your dataset?
:P
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:06 PM
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2. longitudinal protein arrays
as they affect the myocardium in H2 cell propagation.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:11 PM
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6. hmm.
Mine is just dead people.

You win.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:07 PM
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3. I thought it was for researchers to exhange MILF porn
n/t
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:08 PM
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4. Wasn't the military
Edited on Mon Mar-07-05 12:10 PM by bushwentawol
a driving force for all this? Weren't these researchers doing work on defense grants?


Not that there's anything wrong with that. Heck the military wanted the social welfare system in this country to ensure that they had a reliable pool of people ready for military service.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:13 PM
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7. yes
arpanet was intended as a means of communication in the event of nukular war.

the internet is a product of some really good cold war paranoia thinking.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:14 PM
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8. I had heard...
...it was a military project to de-centralise NORAD's computer system. So if Coloroado was hit, the system would still have all of its data.

Oh, and MILF porn.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:15 PM
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10. no, it was for bangbus
and max hardcore exchange.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:29 PM
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11. Cool.
I love bangbus. Don't have a subscription though.
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:35 PM
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13. ick
Bangbus is so gross. barelylegal rocks tho!
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:09 PM
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5. Ah those were the days.. using FTP to gain access to the
White Sands Missile base site that had some cool stuff in their pub folders...

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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:14 PM
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9. Then they started making fun of eachothers' datasets
and started a star trek IRC chat.
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 12:31 PM
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12. I thought it was created for porn (NT)
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