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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (9361)	2/18/2009 12:11:32 AM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9427

I will be shocked if a book or two does not come out of the "pithy comments" "insightful observations...... things that came to pass ..... all the posts and analysis which where products of the mass psychology of the times and most importantly, the most elliptical and periphetitic humor and inside jokes that have been hallmarks of the SI since it's day's of inception. I was actually involved back in 1986 in a Pre WWW experiment; a predecessor to the WWW. It was accessed via modems and had some World Wide Web qualities.... it was largely a text based initiative by Telecom Australia in Sydney. It was a pilot project in Sydney and was called Viatel. I had a Site or destination there where people in Sydney could go and read technical analysis commentary, including Elliott Wave commentary, (which was a good part of my balliwick, back at that time) and time cycles which I talked about more than I do today. when I began collecting stock quotes from Dow Jones's Computer in Princeton NJ in early 1984, we where using the a global link to Princeton and the Data came in at 300 Baud. It was so slow that I could read the date, open high, low, close info as it came across the screen. We moved to 1200 baud around midyear of 1984. I was on a sabattical from UT (hook 'em horns) and working with my Dad who was the IT manager on assignment for Esso Australia. Tales from the early days of the Information Global Village. John