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And Now A Word From The Archives

I was trying to find the name of a company I'd looked into several (3+) years ago to purchase a stand-up arcade game in (to pass it along to a friend). Not finding it in any of my "archives" I cracked open a ZIP file I hadn't opened in years: the backup I made of my Eudora mailboxes on my last Windows machine, which appears to have been shut down in December of 1999.

I found some of the most amazing e-mail messages in there that brought back tons of memories....

  • The discussion between my first YahooBoss and a Yahoo Co-Worker discussing my impending new-hire status, where to look for an apartment, what all the various "stock option" terms meant, etc.
  • The good-bye message I sent to the SpeedChoice crew in October of 1998 when I left there to work for Yahoo.
  • a couple random rants by a Yahoo employee who shall remain nameless, back before he had a kid, when he had time to craft really long rants full of piss and vinegar

    and other things which I don't even want to mention for various reasons.

    It was interesting to take a walk down memory lane like that. I guess it would've been better if the information I was looking for had been preserved. :-(

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