It is hard already to relate to the pre-Millennial milieu. If you were into computing then the Millennium Bug, a consultant's wet dream and virtually fallacious, provided the cracked context, a kinda software Armageddon promising increased sales to survivors. Otherwise it was either a struggle to care of the usual variety pack of pointless delight and dread at the prospect of another thousand years for mancruel to kill.On this type of tireless idiocy the cutups thrived, milling and mangling. Predictably, a lot of the excitement fabricated included aliens - I was friends then with a keen conspiracy theorist who turned me on to MP3s and MK Ultra at the same time - and all manner of extraterrestrial fancies. Mind you, not all of it was fanciful, but that is another story,and largely unbelievable...
The cutup quest used many tools. Most have now disappeared but thanks to the generous void that before it was just another shopping mall and still had some mystery was called "cyberspace" I have recovered two, posted:
Kewl Talker Turn your text into ascii & numbers.Random Thoughts Randomly fishes a designated drive for texts and randomizes them.
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