?Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.?On TOPS-20, there's two: fortune and cookie. fortune tailors its
On TOPS-20, there's two: fortune and cookie. fortune tailors its
greeting based on the time of day. If you call it from logout.cmd,
and it's considerably after business hours, it will say something to
the effect of "hope you get a good night's sleep".
?Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.?
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:57:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
?Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.?
For those too young to remember (which would be most of the audience,
I suspect), Bell Labs was part of AT&T, which was a monopoly over
pretty much the entire US telephone system at the time. Its slogan was
?Reach out and touch someone?.
In Russia, the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat has not led
to socialism, but to the domination of a new bureaucracy over the
proletariat and the whole people.
-- Rudolf Rocker
I've got the feeling the anarchism file is non-standard.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:44:01 +0000, Geoff Clare wrote:
Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:57:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
?Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.?
For those too young to remember (which would be most of the audience, I
suspect), Bell Labs was part of AT&T, which was a monopoly over pretty
much the entire US telephone system at the time. Its slogan was ?Reach
out and touch someone?.
I'm not too young and am well aware that Bell Labs was part of AT&T,
but never having been exposed to any AT&T advertising or promotional
material, I was unaware of their slogan. So thanks for that info.
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-and- >touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-a
nd- touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
On 24 Feb 2026 in alt.folklore.computers, rbowman wrote:
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-
and-touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
That was also the time when the National Basketball Association (NBA)
didn't allow zone defenses, and there was a lot of hand-checking that
went on. It was referred to as the "Ma Bell defense", because you would "reach out and touch someone".
On 2026-02-24, Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 24 Feb 2026 in alt.folklore.computers, rbowman wrote:
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-
and-touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
That was also the time when the National Basketball Association (NBA)
didn't allow zone defenses, and there was a lot of hand-checking that
went on. It was referred to as the "Ma Bell defense", because you would
"reach out and touch someone".
In this year's Winter Olympics, there was a controversy over "double touching".
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-and- touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
For those too young to remember (which would be most of the audience,
I suspect), Bell Labs was part of AT&T, which was a monopoly over
pretty much the entire US telephone system at the time. Its slogan was
?Reach out and touch someone?.
You may titter politely now ...
Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote or quoted:
1992, IBM had one of the largest losses in the history of US
companies
Yeah, I guess Wang Laboratories went under that year too. And Rear
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper died. Maybe that's why the Queen called
1992 an "annus horribilis".
That ?pratchett? one only has two entries ...
ƒ?_.For those too young to remember (which would be most of the
audience, I suspect), Bell Labs was part of AT&T, which was a
monopoly over pretty much the entire US telephone system at the
time. Its slogan was ƒ??Reach out and touch someone
I'm not too young and am well aware that Bell Labs was part of
AT&T, but never having been exposed to any AT&T advertising or
promotional material, I was unaware of their slogan. So thanks
for that info.
https://clickamericana.com/media/advertisements/reach-out-reach-out-and- >touch-someone-1979-1982
It was hard to miss if you lived in the US.
And you are older than 60 (which is less than 20% of Americans).
That's the motto for the Barrett .50 cal
Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:57:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
?Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.?
For those too young to remember (which would be most of the audience,
I suspect), Bell Labs was part of AT&T, which was a monopoly over
pretty much the entire US telephone system at the time. Its slogan was
?Reach out and touch someone?.
I'm not too young and am well aware that Bell Labs was part of AT&T,
but never having been exposed to any AT&T advertising or promotional material, I was unaware of their slogan. So thanks for that info.
On 2026-02-28 07:38, Bob Martin wrote:
US use of the word "Liberal" is different to the rest of the world.
Indeed. Here "the liberals" are the historic right wing.
Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote or quoted:
1992, IBM had one of the largest losses in the history of US companies
Yeah, I guess Wang Laboratories went under that year too.
And Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper died. Maybe that's
why the Queen called 1992 an "annus horribilis".
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