[lug] Past Buzzwords, Re: Wiki server suggestions for small organization

[John Hernandez]

That's definitely a walk down memory lane.  TCP/IP.  Oh wait, we still use
that!  It's comforting that the client (browser) is still the thing that
connects to the (web) server.  Speaking of which, remember when servers ran
on all sorts of different ports below 1024?


On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:36 AM Maxwell Spangler <lists at maxwellspangler.com>
wrote:

> Remember the things we used to say all the time?
>
> WYSIWYG is one of those and I screwed it up
>
> "Open Systems"
> "client-server"
> "mission-critical"
> "Public domain software"
> "shareware"
> "32-bit" as a positive CPU attribute
> "zero wait states"
> "double density"
>
> Client-server is fun for me to remember because its a bridge word between
> the time when our computers were standalone running programs on their own
> and the now-time where we're always connected and so many things are a REST
> API call away.
>
> M
>
> On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 08:15 -0700, Davide Del Vento wrote:
>
> No :-)
> True WYSIWYG does not exist. The second S stands for "Similar", you can
> pray it's close enough for what you need, ROTFL.
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:06 AM Jonathan Eidsness <
> jonathan.eidsness at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm hoping it was a typo...
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:03 AM Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you. I know what "WYSIWYG", but what does the second 'S' stand for
> in the original posting, quoted below?
>
>
> On 3/12/2021 8:00 AM, Jonathan Eidsness wrote:
>
> "What You See Is What You Get"
> WYSISYG editors put in the formatting code for you so you don't have to
> know anything about it.
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 7:10 AM Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/11/2021 4:29 PM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > A WYSISYG editor helps here, of course.
>
> What does "WYSISYG" mean?
>
>
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