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# NeoHands


cliquez for biggie
Usual apologies if done etc, etc...
(I helped save b3ta! unstableOvine has not aged well, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:20, archived)
# haha
nice!
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:23, archived)
# Kootos!
Is this what they really meant when they announced the "animatrix"?
(W3stwing, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:23, archived)
# IT is very funny
.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:28, archived)
# IT?
you mean Ginger?
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:35, archived)
# No I mean computers, IT is very funny.
No the freakin' picture. Who is Ginger?
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:44, archived)
# well..
"Ginger" was the codename of Segway (that standy uppy scooter thing).

Before it was known that it's codename was "Ginger" it was just known as "IT" (when all we knew about IT was that it was so revolutionary that it'd force people to redesign cities around it!)

www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23155.html

Oh how we laugh now
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 18:52, archived)
# For all the logic in the world - that was one hell of a leap from (IT) to
ginger on your behalf. Or is there more to this?
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:00, archived)
# not really
we were making jokes about "IT" at work for weeks, so it kind of got engrained in :-\
(I helped save b3ta! benjymous help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:07, archived)
# Although now the thinking is that
'IT' or 'ginger' isn't the segway at all.
Dean Kamen said at the time that 'IT' would change the way people designed cities. The Segway certainly wouldn't do that, it was designed to work with a city's geography the way it is at the mo....
The Mystery continues......
Where did I put that bloody link to the patents?
(I helped save b3ta! partychancer, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:05, archived)
# Did anyone say
Sinclair C5?
(I helped save b3ta! partychancer, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:09, archived)
# did anyone say
Walk You Lazy Feckers?
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 15 Oct 2002, 19:18, archived)
# I bet his matrix name
was Mr Nohanderson

/coat
(I helped save b3ta! gingerbenji wrote a book http://goo.gl/8UiGjd, Wed 16 Oct 2002, 9:24, archived)