I didn’t see any one mention it here but today is the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and what has become to be known as the beginning of the end of the Second World War.

James Doohan who famously played Scotty in The Original Series in the 1960s was a veteran of this famous battle. This was also the day he famously lost his finger which he always did his very best to hide from the camera.

Read about him at this webpage provided by the Juno Beach Centre.

https://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/james-doohan/

For those who don’t know Juno Beach refers to one of the five named beach areas of the D-Day landings. Juno Beach was the landing area for the Canadian Forces of which James Doohan was part. And also for those who don’t know, James Doohan was a Canadian.

  • @ummthatguy
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    86 months ago

    Hmm. It is 6MP and 5.8Mb. Certainly not my worst, but I can see that being difficult while mobile.

    • IninewCrowOP
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      116 months ago

      lol … no wonder … the download was reminscent of internet porn in the late 90s … it would load, scan line by line, freeze, stop, then I would have to restart or refresh and start again, and again and little by little it came in

        • IninewCrowOP
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          66 months ago

          I’m guessing this came out in 95/96 when Voyager first came out … otherwise Comic Book guy would have been downloading Seven of Nine … and on a much faster 56k modem instead of a 28k modem … but by then, the image would have been twice as large and it would have downloaded at the same speed anyway.

          Oh Comic Book Guy … the patron saint of first generation internet geek porn

        • @ummthatguy
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          46 months ago

          Well remembered, shoulda used that one.