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December 01, 1995

First Post

The first post to this blog shall be we may be the oldest record of early printing through the ImageWriter gateway! I am sure earlier printings existed, but they are either lost in a basement, or made it to recycling.

half sheet of paper with Meatwagon and a test message

Andy Burnett still appears to own roadkill.com, and the testing of underline was successful.

Jason Farnsworth

Jason Farnsworth: Geez. Eric does it again. This script rules!

Thanks, Jason! I wish I knew why it was that my pages ruled.

Food court

I'd like fries w/ that.  eric, are you recycling the paper, like a good boy

The first of many Matt Peterson rants. If only he knew how much noise pollution it caused. On second thought, he probably did.

December 02, 1995

David Kamholz

Various postings from David Kamholz

For reference, from the Apple specifications on alphanumeric printing quality:
Fixed Alphanumeric Symbols:
Draft mode: up to 12 by 8 dot matrix 
Standard mode: up to 7 by 8 dots 
Near-letter-quality mode: up to 16 by 16 dots

DO NOT WRITE NETSCAPE PLUGINS EVER!!
Ok, I won't.

printed internet relay chat

DaveK: I told jadin about the page but I dunno if he has gone there yet.

Uh oh! Not jadin! Of course, before I was home to the read the warning:

Andrew Liles: DEATH TO NETSCAPE!!!!!! WASTE ALL OF ERIC'S INK!!!

Thank you jadin, I was not trying to bridge the gap between IRC and the physical world.

And a physical world ping from sabi:

Nicholas Riley: Well, since you won't answer me on IRC, I'll try this

...and another from Matt Peterson:

ChatMan1: Come abck to irc!!

Too nerdy for comment

Related to liking Star Trek is the language wrote this script in

December 03, 1995

Parental Involvement

Hi from Dallas

December 05, 1995

Greetings from all over

Greetings from all over the world. First, from Tacoma, where Eric Montgomery didn't let a storm stop him from advertising his company, Drain Bamage Ink ("we put the YANK back in fun!"):
Eric Montgomery: Greetings from Tacoma...

Next, from then-9-year-old Conan Langham, from down under, who shared an enjoyment of Babylon 5 and Star Trek:
Conan Langhan: Hi my name is Conan I am 9 year old

And finally, Hironori Ogawz from Japan:
Hironori Ogawz: Hello, I'm colelge student in Japan.

Thank you, I would say that I've had Good luck in my networking life!

December 08, 1995

Eric, Vamp and Kaleidoscope

A fan of the name Eric:

ericf@worldgate.com: Had to check this out, Because I like the name ERIC.

A message from VampLestat:
VampLestat: all work and no play makes jack a dull boy

When Yikes lived in my bedroom, I had a web page serving a current screenshot of my screen. I was running Aaron to spruce up the looks of the classic MacOS:

vaught@eskimo.com: Are you running a copland look alike or beta?

December 20, 1995

Reindeer Effect

I think there should be something in science called the reindeer effect

December 30, 1995

December 30th, 1995

HI FROM SWITZERLAND and other posts

Why does everyone doubt the legitimacy of having a web form print out on a dot matrix printer?

December 31, 1995

New Years Eve Fun

I'm probably making you mad sending for sending this cause your printer is busy but what language do you write CGI script or programs

Nice name, Mr. Tewntacle.

Fixed-width fonts prove their worth, when it comes to ASCII art.

many printouts including Shlockenspiel

Take a look at Shlockenspie, courtesy of the Wayback Machine.

happy new year

Thank you, stranger from Chapman.