Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While working on your paper (or any other file, for that matter), save it to the computer's local hard disk. But before you leave, do not save it on a floppy. Instead, transfer the file to your Faculty of Arts and Sciences (fas) account...
Once connected, you will be presented with a list of the files in your fas home directory. To put a file there, select "put," but be sure to remove any spaces from the filename before sending...
...rude awakening. Before I came to Harvard I had expected to be christened jlee@fas or (@husc, as it used to be back in those days). But I should have known better, given Harvard's undergraduate population of 6,500, an Asian-American population of just under 20 percent and the popularity of many common Asian surnames--particularly those of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese origin. So when I hit enter, the account registration program instantly informed me I was "lee39...
...requested a change to jennylee@fas, a name which fit nicely into the eight-character limit for accounts on the FAS network's operating systems. My request was denied because my full name is Jennifer and not Jenny. I was told that HASCS changed e-mail accounts only on certain occasions--for example, when the resulting login name was a profane word in another language...
There is also an inexplicable understanding with others who have a shared fate--a kinship of anonymity and functionality with which people with e-mail addresses like granade@fas and rawlins@fas will never identity...