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The first political website, created for the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was created 20 years ago today.
Chris Casey, who was working as a system administrator for the senator at the time, has a nice look back:
On June 2, 1994, the office of Senator Kennedy released a press release announcing the launch of their official website, the first for any member of Congress. It was developed and hosted by the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The same release shared a public email address for the Senator, joining just a handful of Senators accepting email from the public by that point. And it also detailed the Senator’s previous means of online outreach to his constituents, including a network of dial up bulletin boards, ftp and gopher servers, and postings in Usenet newsgroups…. [ MORE ]
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Oh I know there’s jokes to be had here but you guys are better at that than I am. 🙂
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Car for sale. Slight water damage
A week later they updated the icons.
They added a liquor bottle, a set of boobs, and pills.
Found a typo in their pop-up ad: “Chappaquiddick Deep Sea Driving Classes”
Good one, Moxie Man! ^
Got another pop-up for “Chris and Ted’s Pressed Ham Sandwiches”
His site will provide links on how to avoid felony charges with the right last name.
Lets not forget the super genius consummate politician charlatan con artist with no scientific knowledge nor any sense of reason logic or common sense is the father of the internet–according to him. Lets all raise 2 middle fingers in his ‘honor’
Forgot to mention ‘our father of the internet’ Algore
“Artificial Intelligence Lab” – how appropriate.
yeah he was famous for his launches. His most famous one was launching his car into the Chappaquiddick.
Wow…that’s old Netscape Navigator.
I had a tiny dial-up modem that went:
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding*
Was “drinks Chivas Regal like it was water” listed under the General Information section?
how come when I clicked on the Net Search button, it only brought up porn sites?
Ahh. Flashbacks like this make one happy some people are dead. Eleanor, FDR – How’s Teddy doin’ down yonder?
I like the “Cowardly Lion” as his avatar.
He excoriated the most qualified nominee in Robert Bork, but used his name as a euphemism later in those Waitress Sandwiches.
Between his drinking and driving it’s a wonder he has time to come up for air.
Like the IRA and ☭ hotkeys. The first wire-transferred taxpayer funds to Gerry Adams, the other, our NATO order of battle and our nuclear forces status.
Thank mercy this piece of shit is dead.
Please take a look at the URL for the website for Sen. Kennedy. This is for MIT, at least they should have used discretion in supporting any one in higher office. Also, on April 30th. 2005 (does anyone know what anniversary that is?) They voiced support for a particular communist regime. Can you guess which one? I know because I was surfing their page at the time and their home page had a big-phrickkking peace symbol on it. Oh an interesting aside. If you go to archive.org, they did not archive MIT’s page for that day. I wonder why?
Do you believe in reincarnation? This story may make you question that belief…
http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/06/02/puppy-drives-car-massachusetts-pond/
When you click on the link for Office of Senator Edward Kennedy, you are redirected to the Cheers website.
1770 days later, and
Teddy’s liver is still metabolizing alcohol.