I believe this is in the tiny town of Beauregard (Lee County), Alabama, nothing to do with Atlanta at all.
I thought The Independent did better basic fact checking than this, but maybe I haven't read it in awhile. (And it does seem like a lot has happened there over the past years...)
Also, just a deeply sad story ๐
Disc film cameras had such cool form factors! I've heard the quality was pretty low since they were 10mmx8mm, is that your experience too?
I was expecting that part to be short, but I was still taken aback by exactly how short!
How did you feel about the fried shrimp surprise?
Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I'm glad it's better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?
I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.
Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.
Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that... my folks couldn't get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won't lay cable out there)
Perhaps a kink for someone ignoring you/bored of you?
Funny timing, I'm actually playing through the games right now. I had forgotten about the little quips it has about the game industry!
Feels so different using a gamepad on a modern PC, I still remember playing it as a kid with a keyboard and CGA graphics. The shareware version of course, ha.
But but but that's not Unix! https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1
(Seeing plan9 running on real hardware always makes me unreasonably happy, so thank you!)
Gosh, my daddy's family is from north Georgia, and he came across one of these guys as a kid. It scared the crap out of him!
I'll admit, I've always wanted to see one in the wild... maybe one day. Big lil snot otter.
Oh gosh, that's giving me flashbacks to one of my third semester computer science classes at college (Intro to C and Compiler Design).
One of the very early assignments was creating a red-black tree. Thankfully I was already pretty familiar with C, but I don't think that was true for anyone else in class... totally super didn't scar me or anyone else.
... and I literally only just now got the joke, oops ๐ if only we could all be left-leaning red-black trees
Oh god, folks at work started using that in PRs recently, it eats at my soul! Or something less dramatic.
Even my community college American history class in 2002 (just an hour south of Atlanta) was chock full of Lost Cause nonsense.
I didn't even recognize it at the time since it was the same stuff my dad taught me. He was a really smart guy who read a lot of history and was particularly interested in the Civil War, so I didn't have a lot of reason to question things until later when I learned what the Lost Cause actually was.
It was always tied up in so many family stories too, and the idea of those 'damn yankees and carpet baggers", it was a part of my identity and history. It was just all around me, like the air, and so it was weird and kinda hard to unlearn that stuff, but not unwelcome.
I think maybe folks raised outside the south don't see all that stuff, how that culture permeates everything. Or maybe they think it's just a bunch of stupid rednecks who've never picked up a book, I'm never quite sure ๐
At least the more modern textbooks I've seen do a much better job at telling the proper story!