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Comment Instant Messanging? (Score 5, Insightful) 437

by Ryan Stortz on Sunday May 31, 2009 @07:23PM (#28162077) Attached to: Ten Applications That Changed Computing

This article seems to have forgotten some of the biggest players in the social revolution of the business PC.

ICQ (and later AIM) should be on the list. How many people here can still remember their original ICQ number? How many are running something similar right now?

Submission + - Thousands of rubber ducks to finally end journey (dailymail.co.uk)

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Bert de Jong

on Sunday July 01, 2007 @11:48AM

Bert de Jong writes: "From the I-WANT-one-of-those! dept. The Daily Mail writes to report that thousands of rubber ducks who have traveled the seas of the world since 1992 are about to end their journey. After escaping out of a container fallen off a Chinese freight ship in a storm, scientists have followed them which turned out to be an invaluable source of information for studying ocean currents. Now it seems inevitable though that they will finally land on the shores of South-West England. Expect to see high bids on E-Bay soon, and beware of phoney ones!"

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