small not beautiful

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Thu Sep 28 15:52:15 PDT 2000


At 06:13 PM 9/28/00 -0400, JessEcoh at cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/28/00 10:04:17 AM Central Daylight Time,
>jancarowan at hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Mr Fitch, it is paradoxical indeed that the new technologies have given
> > voice to those who then can only speak disparagingly of them. Before the
> > internet, wouldn't you have been muttering your world view to yourself
> > before donuts and coffee at some Krispy Kreme counter in an American
>subway
> > station?
>
> this is an odd suggestion. are you saying that before the development of
>the internet, the only means ordinary people had of discussing their "world
>views" was via muttering, typically in krispy kreme establishments?
> what did people do before the first krispy kreme franchise opened?

indeed. this guy is logging in from stanford? grrrrrrrrrreat. i thought it was bad enough that mr geek didn't know how to unsub from a listserv. somebody help me, i'm gonna start channeling carl and make some breathless comment about youth today.

kelley



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