Another Skins First!
- redpaso
- paso grand pooh-bah
- Posts: 654
- Joined: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:00 am
- model: 906 Paso
- year: 1989
- Location: Land of OZ (traylia that is) Troy Bayliss Country
Another Skins First!
Hey Skins I was just perusing the User Stats & do you realise that you have just clocked up 1000 visits to this great site. That is almost double the next highest. Now if Mike did not send you a mug for 250 posts you certianly deserve one for 1000 visits. You are the Paso Grand Pooh-Bah
It is intersting to note how many people are visiting daily yet not contributing at all. makes you wonder what they are looking for & why they don't just ask. :screwy:
I suppose some people just like to watch
It is intersting to note how many people are visiting daily yet not contributing at all. makes you wonder what they are looking for & why they don't just ask. :screwy:
I suppose some people just like to watch
Redpaso
"My favourite peice of Ballet is a long sweeping corner"
"My favourite peice of Ballet is a long sweeping corner"
- Skins
- paso grand pooh-bah
- Posts: 1304
- Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:00 am
- model: 750 Paso
- year: 1988
- Location: Kapiti, New Zealand
:umm:
Holy cow! Cripes!
It's just a combination of circumstances, really: starting problems, found the site and Gerhard and Jon Slocum's wiring upgrade, spending more time looking after my old dad than working now, and the site is a good thing to do while I do that. More than good.
Learned a lot about Pasos, but I knew a lot already - what was really good was learning about the people who ride them.
Concerning contribution by members: don't forget a significant proportion of the membership, maybe more than half, are probably not English-speakers. I reckon everybody more or less gives and gets what they can, what they want, or what they need. I just say, thanks, everybody.
Holy cow! Cripes!
It's just a combination of circumstances, really: starting problems, found the site and Gerhard and Jon Slocum's wiring upgrade, spending more time looking after my old dad than working now, and the site is a good thing to do while I do that. More than good.
Learned a lot about Pasos, but I knew a lot already - what was really good was learning about the people who ride them.
Concerning contribution by members: don't forget a significant proportion of the membership, maybe more than half, are probably not English-speakers. I reckon everybody more or less gives and gets what they can, what they want, or what they need. I just say, thanks, everybody.
- fasterdammit
- paso grand pooh-bah
- Posts: 708
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:00 am
- model: 750 Paso
- year: 1988
- Location: CNY, US
- Contact:
There are lots of 'em Skins. Just a couple examples are:
http://topcc.org/articles/jokes/emoticons.html and http://www.taglinesgalore.com/faces.html
The web or world-wide-web is a part of the internet. Way back in the day there used to be arpanet (or darpanet) - it hooked some military bases, some research centers, and some colleges together. Basically it was a network packet switching technology that allowed for rapid communication even if a node went offline for some reason. Over time it evolved into an internet protocol (IP) and the internet. The early internet consisted of file sharing and transfer tools. Some of the early tools included Kermit, Archie, and Veronica. I seem to remember a Betty too. Sorry - can't remember any Sheilas The www grew out of an invention called Hyper-Text Markup Language or HTML. HTML is itself an offshoot of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
This is an all to brief and incomplete history. People write graduate level thesis work around the history of the internet and www. If you are interested I can point you to some references that you can dive into for further edification. Or, do a search on arpanet or darpanet. There are still Spiders and bots out scouring document sources and they bring you tools like the search sites we all now use.
http://topcc.org/articles/jokes/emoticons.html and http://www.taglinesgalore.com/faces.html
The web or world-wide-web is a part of the internet. Way back in the day there used to be arpanet (or darpanet) - it hooked some military bases, some research centers, and some colleges together. Basically it was a network packet switching technology that allowed for rapid communication even if a node went offline for some reason. Over time it evolved into an internet protocol (IP) and the internet. The early internet consisted of file sharing and transfer tools. Some of the early tools included Kermit, Archie, and Veronica. I seem to remember a Betty too. Sorry - can't remember any Sheilas The www grew out of an invention called Hyper-Text Markup Language or HTML. HTML is itself an offshoot of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
This is an all to brief and incomplete history. People write graduate level thesis work around the history of the internet and www. If you are interested I can point you to some references that you can dive into for further edification. Or, do a search on arpanet or darpanet. There are still Spiders and bots out scouring document sources and they bring you tools like the search sites we all now use.
- redpaso
- paso grand pooh-bah
- Posts: 654
- Joined: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:00 am
- model: 906 Paso
- year: 1989
- Location: Land of OZ (traylia that is) Troy Bayliss Country
So this sounds like an appropriate time to ask what are the "Spiderbots" that appear in the "Who's Online" box on the left of here, just below registered & guest users online? They have always scared me, should I be afraid or are they my friend?
Redpaso
"My favourite peice of Ballet is a long sweeping corner"
"My favourite peice of Ballet is a long sweeping corner"