On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Mark Tapley <mtapley at swri.edu> wrote: Nice. . . . This section asks the question "Under what circumstances would you opt for floppies over something like a $10 (or so) 4GB USB drive that holds 2750 times as much data?" Well... I would when I'm on a machine that doesn't _have_ USB and can't have it equipped (like my Dell Latitude LM that only has PCMCIA, not Cardbus... it's been running RedHat 9 since it was given to me in 2003. With 256MB of RAM and a 40GB disk, it's not a terrible laptop, but I wouldn't try to run a recent browser on it, that's for sure). . . . This section mentions "Wow" and calls it "a faux-AOL that the company shuttered within months of its 1996 release -- I can?t believe that anyone misses it or is looking for it.". I never used Wow, but when I was working at AOL/CompuServe in 2001, I worked directly with some folks who were part of the Wow launch a few years earlier. Their comments were, um, uncharitable. Apparently few people liked it, inside the company or out. I still have a couple of Wow mousepads, the only useful remnant. The article also says "For those of us who were CompuServe users back when its user IDs consisted of lots of digits and a mysterious comma, it?s a depressing fate." I haven't memorized my old PPN, but I do have it in easy reach at home on the subscriber label of ancient copies of "Online" magazine. I'm glad I worked there (twice!), but it was sad to watch the once-great CompuServe in the final stages of digestion by AOL. -ethan