On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, David K. Merriman wrote:
If cypherpunks made toasters... Jim B and Black Unicorn would argue about whether toast should be buttered, and what the appropriate flavor of jam/jelly should be; TC May would point out that it wasn't really toast, but rather, sliced and slightly-burned bread; Perry would kvetch about the lack of crypto-relevance of toasters; and a few others would form a new listserver for toasterpunks. The service department would be flooded with calls from newbies, asking how to make toast.
If Netscape made toasters... They'd beta-test the toasters for months, then make one slot too wide and the other too narrow. It wouldn't be until a cook in a diner pointed out that the toast wasn't coming out right that they'd have their design reviewed by a 3rd-party Toaster Engineer.
and during daylight savings time, you wouldn't be able to reload the toaster for an hour unless you set your toaster to standard time or created a timezone variable. - r.w.