![]() Again, eBay is the only place to find much information. GV ended up buying up a Marietta, Georgia based company called SofNet that made a Windows 3.1 fax software package called FaxWorks. The feeling was that, like the Mac market, GV needed a software package that would go with it that would allow us to sell our modems at a premium price. Attempting that with modems alone was going nowhere. I mentioned GV trying to get into the Windows PC market previously. The web site is gone, but I still have the Microsoft FrontPage files for it… who remembers FrontPage… and the internet archive as reference points. This post was greatly assisted by the fact that I had a web site back in 2000 where I recorded much of this information when it was all much more fresh in my head. So I guess it is time to go through some of the others. It carried its own weight, but never coalesced into anything major, in part because MSDOS and Windows networking was so bizarro world behind at the time that we couldn’t expand it beyond Macs, and that was not a big market for network devices beyond printers.Īnd yet, OneWorld was the second best idea that the company came up with. So OneWorld was a vision that never quite developed into much. You can, by the by, see the two angled ports in the back where the PowerPort modems would be plugged into the motherboard of the device to act as the dial in/out connections. But then what would I do with yet another piece of old computer junk? Connect to it with the PowerMac 8500 still sitting in the back of my office closet? (I don’t even have an ADB mouse or keyboard anymore, so good luck with that.) I was half tempted to buy it for the $25 “Buy Now!” price. The formerly $1,500 device back in 1994… this one has EtherNet, so it was probably $2,500, because the cheaper originals were LocalTalk only… LocalTalk being the 230Kbps networking built into Macintosh models since the Mac Plus… and there were exactly zero images available on Google. You can read a bit about its launch thanks to the TidBits Macintosh Newsletter archive.Īs a bit of proof on that front, in order to find the images above I had to go to eBay, where exactly one unit was for sale. We sold enough for it to count as a second product line in order to go public, but it was never going to sustain the company. In any event, though, the meme also can be used in some creative and hilarious ways that aren’t quite so mean-spirited, too.This was not a particularly successful product. (But, hey, fun fact: Couching offensiveness in “No offense, but…” or calling it a “joke” doesn’t stop it from being offensive, and other people are not unreasonable for being upset by it.)īut, well… that’s none of my business, right? The “But That’s None Of My Business” meme is pretty much the personification of that person you know who thinks that saying “No offense, but…” or “Relax, it’s just a joke!” cancels out the offensiveness of whatever offensive thing they just said - which means that by their logic, you’re being unreasonable if you’re upset by what they said. Ninety-nine percent of the time, it seems to be used as an excuse to say mean or shame-y things without having to deal with the consequences, and that… kind of bothers me. I’ll be honest: I’m actually not a huge fan of this particular meme. ![]() Much like Pokemon, memes do occasionally evolve - and “But That’s None Of My Business” seems to have leveled up, so to speak. ![]() In some cases, the image doesn’t even include a drink at all. The catchphrase “but that’s none of my business” has begun appearing on social media paired with images of all sorts of people and characters (real and fictional) drinking all sorts of drinks (tea, yes, but also soda, coffee, water, and wine, among others). Recently, though, the meme seems to have undergone a bit of a change: It’s no longer limited to pictures of Kermit. It took off from there, with both an Instagram account dedicated to these memes and a few hashtags on Twitter providing a steady stream of images of Kermit drinking tea while stating some pretty judgmental opinions. You don’t see that every day, particularly on the internet, when time passes in the blink of an eye.Īccording to Know Your Meme, memes featuring Kermit the Frog began appearing on Instagram as early as January 2014, with the earliest known example of the “But That’s None Of My Business” macro occurring on June 17 of that year. However,it’s proven to have a staying power, a tenacity, that’s honestly kind of surprising. The meme obviously isn’t new in fact, by meme standards, it’s ancient. Others, however, refuse to die - and as the best “Sipping Tea” memes demonstrate, the catchphrase “but that’s none of my business” is definitely one of them.
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