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Another Joins the Fold (11/25/97)
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We never thought we'd be sending you to the Macs Suck page, but now we know that anything's possible. As the page's author states, "I used to be a member and support page for Team Mac Suck. I am hereby resigning myself as a member."

What prompted this change of heart? Why, actually using a Mac, of course. The former "Macs Suck" page now loudly proclaims, "OS8 is wonderful, I admit it!" The one major criticism is of the Mac Link Plus translators-- which, of course, are not even Apple products. It just goes to show you how unfamiliarity breeds contempt. The very idea of constructing and maintaining a web site dedicated to the tenet that "Macintosh computers are worthless, and the people who use them are generally snobs" who should be "smashed" and "dealt with like the worms they are" without ever having even used a Macintosh is beyond us. (And yes, the same goes for those of you who do the equivalent for Windows; use it before you condemn it.)

AtAT welcomes any and all new Mac users to the community. And by the way, this mind-broadening epiphany can work both ways. Just today I was impressed to see Windows 95's Plug-and-Play almost work. Yeah, it selected the wrong driver, but hey, at least it realized we had installed a new CD-ROM drive in the first place. Maybe in Windows 98?

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/25/97 episode:

November 25, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 211: Just Like Being There (11/25/97)   Hey, many thanx to graphics goddess Andrea Parent for pointing us toward these Quicktime VR panoramas of the inaugural Apple Salon Store in the Pleasanton, CA CompUSA. We at AtAT had heard Steve Jobs demo the Apple section at the November 10th announcement using, presumably, these very same QTVR files...

  • 213: Less Spam for Lunch (11/25/97)   You may have heard this elsewhere by now, but we just had to mention the recent legal victory in the fight against spam. Craig Nowak didn't even bother showing up for his court hearing in Austin, Texas, at which a judge ordered him liable for $18,000 in damages and legal fees and forbade him to spam people in the future...

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I'm trying to pretend the last 20 years never happened
I mean, if it worked for Friends, why not?
I came here looking for a receptacle in which to place the cremated remains of my deceased Java applets (think about it)

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