» On 12/31/2023 10:10:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Winklevii/Zuck/Exclusivity. 

Remember when the Winklevoss twins pitched their idea for HarvardConnection/ConnectU to Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network film? One of their big selling points was exclusivity: you needed a Harvard-dot-edu email address to join. Well, the number of students at Harvard in 2004 was approximately 19,731 and the number of Registered Users at NBCuPageAlumni.com currently stands at 1475 (March 2024 update).

The Winklevii got nuthin' on us, bay-bee. 😉

UPDATE, for non-Pages: NBCuPageAlumni.com is the alumni networking website given to us by NBCUniversal as a 90th-anniversary gift. Yes, the Page program was created in 1933. Former Pages include actors Gregory Peck, Eva Marie Saint, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Kate Jackson, Aubrey Plaza; comedian Joan Rivers; newsman Ted Koppel; studio exec Michael Eisner; TV personalities Willard Scott, Regis Philbin, Chuck Barris, Gene Rayburn, Peter Marshall, Dave Garroway. They say only around 1.5 percent of applicants are accepted into the program, so becoming an NBC Page is more competitive than gaining admission to Ivy League universities. Creativity and persistence count: one of the Pages from my class wrote a catchy tune and got a Singing Telegram performer to sing his praises to the Page Supervisor. 😉 I created a dozen funny hand-drawn greeting cards and mailed them at irregular intervals. I think my boss finally granted me an interview just to stop the friggin' onslaught of cards. 🤡

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» On 12/01/2023 12:01:00 AM Mountain Standard Time, Alan wrote:
Clipboard History Saves The Day! 

Anyone who used Windows prior to 2018 probably knows the fear of losing text or images that had been Cut (Ctrl+X) with the intention of Pasting (Ctrl+V) elsewhere. If you Copied (Ctrl+C) something else before Pasting the original Clipboard contents, then your first text or image would be permanently gone.

Now, you can simply press Windows Logo Key + V to access your Clipboard History. Just hover your mouse over the right side to Scroll and find the text or image you want. Then Click it to Paste into the open application. You can retain up to 25 items, 4 MB per item. You can also Pin items by tapping the ellipsis (...) next to the item. A Pinned item will remain, even when you Reboot or tap "Clear all." If Clipboard History isn’t on, use your taskbar search field 🔍 to find Clipboard Settings and switch the toggle to On.