Moof! You don't know the interwebs until you've studied up on the Clarus 'dogcow'
'Moof' that's the sound the dogcow makes... This internet icon was created in the Apple studios in 1983!
The name Clarus is related to the now defunct Apple office suite called Claris Works. For those who remember early Apple operating systems (I still have a Powerbook running system 6 (0r is it 7) in my cupboard!), the dogcow was used by Apple to show the colour and orientation of paper in the print dialogue.
When Apple released OS X the dogcow was no more... Some diehard fanboys petitioned the company to reintroduce it... But alas, it had long since joined other dogcows in the sky.
Some of us still remember the days before the internet... When I first studied towards a BSc (back in the days when science was still busy being invented), the fastest computers were intel 286 SX 25's (or some such), running UNIX and we communicated via usenet and gopher.
By the way, this last week saw the 'death' of an internet icon - the Netscape Browser.
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1 Comments:
I still remember the days when all Internet traffic between South Africa and the rest of the world went over a single 9600 bps modem - in fact I was the one who suggested it to the people at Rhodes University who implemented the suggestion.
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Steve Hayes, at 5:32 AM
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