Word: greene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking at four bags of a green leafy substance," HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara said...
...ironic thing is that everyone can do it; everyone can get hooked--especially during reading period, when procrastination consumes us all. Imagine all of us sitting in front of our keyboards, ignoring our term papers and final exams, staring intently into a sea of streaming green columns, hitting w... w... w... We'd all be watching each other, watching other people watch each other...
These days, I too have been spending quite a bit a lot of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down my computer screen. The ASCII characters on my screen don't look nearly as cool as the ones created by Warner Brothers. Nor do these characters represent anything close to an elaborate human prison designed by intelligent robots gone sour. But Keanu's Matrix is my Unix, and like my stolid friend, I can see what people are up to. Sort...
True, these lines of green text are not all that informative. For one thing, they only report the specific Unix operations that the particular users on your login are performing at that particular moment in time. In other words, you get a long list of unfamiliar user names, each usually followed by the word "pine." On some rare occasions you might even see something as interesting as "telnet hollis." Or, if you get really lucky, someone might be running "ytalk" or "finger...
...before me--a fragmented picture of activity that all but invites interpretation. Contrary to stalking, which implies singling out a particular person, "w" displays a sea of faceless usernames. It is this impersonality and vagueness that makes it so addictive. The groundless deconstruction and reconstruction of these ever-changing green columns has become a part-time hobby...