On (18 Feb 03) Barry Martin wrote to 3abxo3...
 BM> While I'm not too thrilled with it at times Windows probably greatly
 BM> healped with the 'computer explosion'.  The average person seemed to
 BM> be scared of the command line, prefering to click on colourful
 BM> pictures to get started.

Was it really what the average person wanted, or were they hornswaggled
into believing that's what they wanted? ("the dumbing down of America"
it's been called!) :P

At one time people were 'naturally' inclined to consider the more
difficult tasks to be the ones with greater value(and, often, it was
true, in what one could learn/experience/grow through them!) :)

Here's a cute micro$pit cartoon. . .


             ___
          __|___|__
           ( {at} {at} )
           _\ _ /_               ___
          / \\_// \             /___\
         |   \_/   |        ___/_____\___
         | |  . *| |          (|||||||)
         | |  .  | |         __\_____/__
         |_|_____|_|        /...........\
         / \__8__/ \       |..|.......|..|
        )\\\     ///       |..|.......|..|
         \ |  |  |         |..|.......|../
JRO       \|  |  |         |..|.......|./
 .   '     |  |  |   .  '  |..UUUUUUUUU_)
           |__|__|         /_\|\_/ \_/| /   .
          (__) (__)        \\\|   |   |/
                              |   |   |  .
 .   '  .     .    `  .       |   |   |    '
                              |   |   |  .
 .   .   '   `   .     .      |___|___|
.        '       `       .   (___) (___)  .

Billy 'the kid' Gates prayed his Winchester .95
wouldn't fire a blank *this* time.



NOTE:     I did NOT draw the above picture(s) I have NO ascii art
          drawing ability AT ALL;  I am merely a collector & sharer of
          that which I enjoy of ascii artwork in my travels...

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