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If you’re in Accordion City, you might want to check out the really good book sale taking place at the offices of Canadian Manda Group (they’re independent publishing sales agents) at 1 Atlantic Avenue. They’ve got a large selection of books, especially “coffee table”, “guide” and “how-to” books, the sort that make really good Christmas gifts. The deals are really amazing — they take the American price for each book, halve that, and charge you that value in Canadian Snow Pesos.
They were open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow. There’s plenty of parking in the area.
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The Victorian Inter-Net
b3ta.com asked: What would the Victorians have made of the Internet?
For starters, being such hyphenation maniacs, they would have called it the “Inter-Net”. After that, b3ta readers came up with a hilarious set of graphics depicting the Internet, had it been created by the Victorians. Some examples:
(Click on any of the pictures to see the whole collection.)
Today, we have RateMyRack.com [Not safe for work!]. The Victorians were — at least in public — considerably more prudish:
Here are TLDs (top-level domains, such as .com, .net and .org) in the Victorian era:
An iPod ad:
When I mentioned b3ta’s “Victorian Internet” gag to Boss Ross, he replied that the Victorians did have an Internet of sorts — the telegraph. Was it like this?
…or like this?
(The Morse Code in the window shown above actually deciphers into real text. Deciphering is left as an exercise for the reader.)
It was the heyday of inventors:
And here’s what my employer, Tucows — formerly an acronym for The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software — would have been like:
Other goodies:
