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I expected a No True Belgian response and was instead pleasantly surprised.

I'd have guessed he invented Boggle, the intertubes have that at 1972, 18 years earlier.

I have no words for the French here in '67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LZbw6YCcm4




1967? 22 years before the release of unrelated belgian Techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam"...


Yes, '67, six years before Bowie covered Brel on the stench of fish and whores in Zeebrugge. (A syllable was added and Amsterdam was used as "it sounded better to the ear")


The sailors are a bit more appreciative than the scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1eLe1ihT0

(Les Horribles Cernettes lineup appears to have been far more anglophone than francophone over the years, but all of them —as it was a founding member in 1954– have at least tenuous ties to belgium)


That I did not know! (Although I've been a fan of the Cernettes since d/loading that first image on the web in a mosaic browser way back when).


Kids now will never know the salad days of "discovery" being reading the "What's New" page at NCSA.

https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000487...




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