Zyca

In my wandering today, I ran across a CBC Prime Time News clip from October 8th, 1993. The journalist is Bill Cameron, who passed away two months ago from Cancer. It is interesting as the clips on “this is how an airport works” are interesting. It is so strange that an every day thing was ever new. Still, I’d like to return to a time when the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory wasn’t true.

“… there is an interesting kind of restraint … that you find … I mean there is not a lot of cursing or swearing . There is not a lot of personal … umm … cuts. There is not a lot of … ummm … put downs that one would expect to find. There are not screen fulls of … ‘Go To Hell’ … ummm … which is suprising. So the kind of liberation is … is … is … is mixed. It is interesting because one would think if you were annonymous, you’d do anything you want. But people have … in a group have their own sense of community and what we can do. The thing th… though that I’m always left with, when I leave, is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted. And the only way they feel rooted is through another person. And if this is the way … the only way maybe, that they can talk to somebody, this is how they’ll do it.”
— John Allen

I broke out laughing at the line “I’m always left with, when I leave, is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted.” ;> For those of you who don’t know what being ‘rooted’ is, it’s when a cracker seizes root/administrator access to a computer.

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