institutional_memory.txt

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Heath Silverman
Subject: Re: old pics of some old legends...

you call that old? how about:

http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/resources/insight/archives/v3-issue1/centerfold/
&
http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/resources/insight/archives/v2-issue1/#RCC

and the pioneers, so old they didn't have color back then:
http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/resources/insight/archives/v1-issue1/#RCC

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher Co wrote:

> http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/resources/insight/archives/v4-issue1/centerfold/
>
> chris
>

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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:47:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Hostetter
Subject: Re: old pics of some old legends...

: you call that old? how about:

Heath:

As I understand it, Rescomp's sense of history has stabalized at arround 7
years.  Which is to say: people who start working for rescomp as sophmores
know all about the people 3 or 4 years older then them (because they are
usually still there) and hear stories about people 3 years older then that
from those people -- but people don't tend to relay history that they
heard second hand.

As a result: Viv's generation of RCCs are thought of similarly to
historical figures like Magellan: people who remember lots of historical
facts can tell you about their accomplishments, and what was going on in
the world when they were alive, but your average Joe is lucky to have even
hear the name.  Your generation is along the lines of Odysseus, people
generally agree that you probably really did exist, but everything know
about you is considered folk legend.  My generation best correlates to
characters from the Old Testimant:  The stories exist, but serious
historians doubt such people acctually existed.


And then of course, come the student employees that pre-date me:
"Neolithic Man" ... no written history, known only by their fossile
remains.