Heavens, has it really been that long since I was 18?

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It was 20 years ago today…

On this day in 1986 a momentous happening occured:

The SEND command was removed from use on the original EUCLID system by University College London Computer Centre.

The SEND command was used greatly by the undergraduate community via the MISC.YAP and POOL.GOODYAP talking programs and it was a hard blow to us hacker types. [ed: unix types: think /bin/write]

So, independently, Alec and I wrote within the day basic replacements for the talking programs which no-longer worked. I produced POOL.CONVERSE and Alec POOL.CONFLAB. Subsiquent to this first day, we got together, along with Robert Newson and made our programs work together. The final upshot of this was the development of Bullet about 18 months afterward (after much talking in the Pi office.).