Hard News: Playing Nice?
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I for one vote for the supposedly unflattering one. Young persons who look confidently into the future scare the beejesus out of me.
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And then -- because it's 20 years ago this month -- I'll be pondering the connection of New Zealand's first internet link to the rest of the world
I just watched the episode on TVNZ ondemand and I really enjoyed it!
Those three fellows all had interesting things to say. So much so that I wasn't happy when goings-on were disrupted to show that verging-on-advertorial vodka ad film festival EPK thing.
In fact, I was left wanting more, like a feature-length documentary about the net in NZ. We all have stories to tell. Can't someone with a camera do something?
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I just watched the episode on TVNZ ondemand and I really enjoyed it!
Thanks!
I normally have a reasonable sense of timing in managing discussions. The internet one, I just got so absorbed I didn't even get to half my questions.
Afterwards, Nat informed me of the look in my eyes as it dawned on me that I'd actually asked him a question about the relative robustness of the TCP/IP protocol ...
In fact, I was left wanting more, like a feature-length documentary about the net in NZ. We all have stories to tell. Can't someone with a camera do something?
I had exactly the same thought afterwards. So many stories. It's a long road to get these things to air, but I'd really love to do that.
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You could call it something like Connecting the Clouds. :)
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You could call it something like Connecting the Clouds. :)
That would certainly be the primary text. But Keith Newman's book is almost unfeasibly comprehensive. A doco would be some people's best stories.
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Skimming the clouds, prehaps.
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Why is it that whenever the story of the internet in New Zealand is told, it never seems to involve women?
Ok, it might not be New Zealand and it may not be interwebs but Women were pretty important from very early on in telecomunications.
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As a young lady Nana worked for some time on a switchboard in Manchester. I really must dig out a dictaphone and ask her all about it one weekend.
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As a young lady Nana worked for some time on a switchboard in Manchester. I really must dig out a dictaphone and ask her all about it one weekend.
My Nana, between her first and second husband, worked for... the post office I guess it would have been then?... on the other side of the switchboard. She was connecting lines and phones at some sort of cabinets and so forth.
Which I learnt when I interviewed her with a dictaphone as part of my history degree.
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I think that video proves you don't need a dictaphone.
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As a young lady Nana worked for some time on a switchboard in Manchester.
So did my mum - well, not in Manchester obviously. And she has great stories. My favourite one is that in the early days people phoned the operator to ask the same questions that today we ask each other via Google. Except in those days they were answered by my mum.
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My favourite one is that in the early days people phoned the operator to ask the same questions that today we ask each other via Google.
Robyn just picked up several coolness points.
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Robyn just picked up several coolness points.
Yeah, like she needs any more of those.
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Robyn just picked up several coolness points.
That must be why her STARmeter went up another 1% this week.
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Always the jealousy with you!
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I sure as fuck hope that this isn't the end of the Kordia-PipeNet cable...
DomPost - Trans-Tasman cable funds withdrawn
Then again, TeamTalk has a potential Plan B. And better still, it'd be run from Kapiti.
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Stop Press: there's still hope yet.
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