Soongson5678

Soongson5678
More where that came from..

When I was at Karr school, we got a dialup internet connection in my office and in the library with a flipswitch. Thanks to Tulane University, we received a grant and email addresses for the connection. At that time it was only text, no mouse, no graphics, no windows. We got online via Kermit and connected. Yes, we could surf the net, look up words, topics, but all we got were text links. At the time, it was fascinating. One student, Michael Smolen, loved it so much, he could not wait to get online. He eventually became a computer major at Tulane and is currently doing quite well in that field.
The secret code was, "Ms. Tiller, please "flip the switch." Occassionally when the secretary wouldn't allow Michael to come to my office, he would just stick his head in the hall and make the sign for flip the switch with his fingers. We laughed a lot about that over the 2 years back in the days of Kermit.

Michael always wanted to know my password, but I never told him though he tried to guess. It was "soongson" what I derived from Star Trek's Data. His creator/father was Dr. Noonion Soong. So Data was Soong's son....Soongson.

It's not important anymore, but I still hear from Michael and his family in DC. I wonder if I should tell him the password or if he'd even care now. :)
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