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July 1999, Week 3

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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton writes:
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> Thus it was written in the epistle of Newman, Kevin:,
> > I was 4, and I remember it.  I remember looking around and seeing all of
> > the faces of my family looking so intensely at the TV screen.  That
> > struck me, and I remember thinking that this was something that I was
> > going to remember for a long time.  Little did I know the real
> > importance of the event.... hey, at 4, anything is possible, so why not
> > land on the moon?
>
> :-).  Funny thing, I don't remember it at all, being but a few months old at
> the time.  What was that someone was saying about the HP3000 community being
> "greying"?

I was 10 at the time and of course I watched every minute of TV coverage.

But perhaps what I remember most was the awesome feeling of looking up at the
moon in the sky and knowing humans were up there so very far away, and that
all of those science fiction stories were now turning into science fact.
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