Putting the bread back in breadboard

July 15, 2005 1:42 PM

The Tortilla-Board^TM. When the worlds of electronics and cheap Mexican food combine.
posted by DrJohnEvans (18 comments total)

Dr John - this is from April of 1998. It's been around...
posted by jonson at 1:45 PM on July 15, 2005

Dammit, I'm always seven years behind the times. I would've noticed the date, but Netscape 3 didn't display it properly for some reason.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 1:55 PM on July 15, 2005

Welcome to the internets.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:06 PM on July 15, 2005

> Netscape 3 didn't display it properly for some reason.

Mosaic did the same thing to me -- that means if I upgrade to Netscape it won't help. I can put off that purchase of an 50MB disk for now.
posted by NewBornHippy at 2:08 PM on July 15, 2005

This can't be from 1998, where are the embedded MIDI files, where are the multiple out of sync flashing widgets?

Still, pretty clever and news to me or maybe I knew it once and forgot about it.

Welcome back to the internets, crash.
posted by fenriq at 2:10 PM on July 15, 2005

Guys metafilter did not even *exist* in 1998. So how are you even typing those comments?
posted by zpousman at 2:19 PM on July 15, 2005

LETS HAVE AN INTERNETS NOSTALGIA MOMENT !!!!!!!!

Seriously, I either forgot about this or never saw it, thanks for posting it
posted by cmonkey at 2:31 PM on July 15, 2005

OMG, cmonkey, I love you!
posted by tristeza at 2:42 PM on July 15, 2005

Whenever I see a Radio Shack at a mall, I always stop in and purchase the entire stock of 4"x6" predrilled PC boards (Radio Shack #276-147A). Usually, I can find at least one or two on the wall. If not, then there is a strong chance that Karl Lunt has visited the store recently, since he and I seem to clean out the stock of these all around the north end of Lake Washington, which is in the Seattle area.

Ah... the Internet. Amazing what they've done with the place since 1998.
posted by rkent at 3:25 PM on July 15, 2005

You can do anything at Zombo Com... anything at all.
posted by Galvatron at 3:26 PM on July 15, 2005

one1
posted by ijoshua at 3:57 PM on July 15, 2005

cmonkey, that was very, ah, disturbing. Thank you.
posted by warbaby at 6:50 PM on July 15, 2005

I always stop in and purchase the entire stock of 4"x6" predrilled PC boards (Radio Shack #276-147A). Usually, I can find at least one or two on the wall. If not, then there is a strong chance that Karl Lunt has visited the store recently, since he and I seem to clean out the stock of these all around the north end of Lake Washington

Damn. No wonder those things are always out of stock around here.
posted by -harlequin- at 7:00 PM on July 15, 2005

That’s so geeky my teeth hurt.
posted by signal at 9:20 PM on July 15, 2005

Oh yikes.

We've probably forgotton more websites than Google remembers.

*ahem*...Anyone have the link for the exacting woman named Mary that was looking for a mate who had to follow extremely granular instructions to meet her?

Did she ever find anyone?
posted by Dunvegan at 2:31 AM on July 17, 2005

You mean Gentle Mary? She's still around, but her focus has changed a bit...
posted by Vidiot at 11:52 AM on July 17, 2005

I thought this was cool, and hadn't seen it, and have been using the internets since pre-Mosaic days.
posted by grouse at 1:30 PM on July 17, 2005

grouse, maybe you and jonson were using different internets.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 6:43 AM on July 18, 2005