Salvete iterum, amici iocosi!
You know you love ancient history a little too much when ...
...someone asks you about the Civil War and you say "Which one? We had three worthy of the mention, and one of 'em lasted almost a hundred years!"
> We Romans bear a heavy load. It's a good thing we invented the Internet...
Actually, and Al Gore notwithstanding, we *did* have those long chains of signal towers...smoke signals by day, fires by night. Can you say "binary information transmitted over a wide-area network"? I thought so...! (Of course, the baud-rate stank...sigh.)
In [Latin word for geekiness...did we ever come up with one? There was a thread where someone asked about it...]