[OT] Re: While we are on the subject of named...

[Chong Yu Meng]

Vu Pham wrote:

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>Sorry for the off-topic but I cannot help writing this. About 6,7 years ago
>there were very few people using and we used telephoned line to access to
>the ISP only for emails ( no internet, and the ISP several times a day
>connects to some foreign gateways to send/recevie emails ). Telephone was
>rare and expensive, so there were services called "telephone for rent" (
>similar to public telephone stations here, but they were on private houses
>).
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Was this in Vietnam? A couple years ago, I had the privilege to work 
with a girl from Hanoi. It was very interesting, because previously, I'd 
only known Vietnam from movies ("Indochine" with Catherine Deneuve, 
"Rambo", etc.) and TV. This girl was nothing like I expected. First, she 
was quite cosmopolitan and cultured (her parents are doctors), and she 
seemed quite up to date on the latest technologies. No memories of the 
war, and she used to attend performances at the Opera House in Hanoi (a 
replica of the one in Paris, so I am told, and one of the settings in 
Indochine).

Wow, I have really digressed!

Regards,
pascal chong