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6 Mar 2005 @ 18:20, by Max Sandor

Julie Jewel reminded me/us of the impending 10th birthday of Newciv..

better than anything else could demonstrate that it's still alive: this BLOG is published on its server...

we experimented a lot with kind of BLOGS those days, 10 years ago... Gunter offered a glimpse on it on his BLOG recently... and I would like to find the 'Daily Insight' (or so) pages... precursors of BLOGs as we know them...

does anyone still have one of the New Civ CD-ROMs??? ..

by now an archeological artefact, it may give a good view of Internet (quasi) 10 years ago...

the picture attached is from Gunter ('Martina On the Hill').. it will be on the front cover of my new book 'Contos Verdadeiros dos Mundos Estrangheiros), sorry, only in Portuguese)...
the picture, I guess, is even older than New Civ...

in any case, happy birthday Ming!!!
mx

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7 Mar 2005 @ 15:35 by Ed Dawson @68.136.84.144 : Yeah...
Happy birthday, NewCiv. A big tip of the hat to Flemming for putting it here for us. Thanks, Flemming. :)

So Max, what does 'Contos Verdadeiros dos Mundos Estrangheiros' mean in English?
Ed  



7 Mar 2005 @ 20:33 by Ge Zi @24.126.199.23 : kick-off
Talking about the start of NewCiv with Babba yesterday I discovered a faint memory that we actually had that kick-off event here in our back yard.
I distinctly remembering Flemming making a speech, but why did we not document that event properly?
I guess you have to have some precognition to know when something becomes a historic event and then document the heck out of it ;-)  



10 Mar 2005 @ 22:55 by Ed @66.245.205.65 : precog
Try looking at yourself in the now from a viewpoint in the future?
;-)
Ed  



10 Mar 2005 @ 23:13 by ming : NewCiv10
Yeah, 10 years, that's amazing. And co-founder Max here had a good deal to do with it. He's the one who thought about setting up a server, which he was running at his house, on a permanently dialed-up 28.8 modem line. Which worked well for an amazing amount of time.

And after that, that same 386 server, with 16MB of RAM, was running newciv.org for an amazing amount of time on my T1 in Venice Beach. For a while it even lived in a box outside in the parking lot, after we had moved out, and covertly drilled a hole in the wall for the T1 line.

Then, after it got replaced, and after a few years in my garage, it got a ceremonial burial.

And, yeah, I certainly still have one of those CDs, ready for future archaeologists to find. For those who don't know, it was a complete copy of everything on the server at some point in time, back in 1995. Which was something that was cool and made sense at the time, so one could access it all while one was off line. And, really, there was a lot of stuff there even back then.

And I don't remember my speech in Gunter's backyard, but I guess that's all the more reason we should have documented the event.  



11 Dec 2007 @ 07:46 by Vaxen Var @67.33.253.33 : Mundo Futuro
"Contos Verdadeiros dos Mundos Estrangheiros"
Trance-late and trance a lot! Translation, sort of: "The true content of foreign/strange worlds?" - OSS RA translation (Since Dada Max has not responded in 7 years)

Or Wirth at his best as coming from Darmstadt? Or...little purple pills for little purple people who have read a certain little purple book and escaped the dharma chains of virtual spaces ConCur-rently saboserpiently denying their scienologically parmetaframeworks. Denial is...

Incidentally this is from the future of your is...  



17 Dec 2007 @ 18:12 by mx @189.68.173.77 : contos
"True stories from strange worlds" is the title translation.. better late than never..

and, Flemming, we had funeral for the first newciv server in your backyard in Van Nuys... :-)

together with my old Mac... oh well, what a time...  



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