{"id":12608,"date":"2016-10-19T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:24:41","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-19-2016-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/10\/19\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-october-19-2016-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: October 19, 2016 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harshing the college\u2019s mellow: <\/b>According to a story in our October 15, 1991 issue, Camosun was dealing with the \u201cstoned virus\u201d on its computers at the time. The virus, which displayed a message on computer screens calling for legalization of marijuana, was spreading throughout the computer labs at the college. Unfortunately, this was before the era of free, effective anti-virus software; the college was ponying up between $800 and $1,000 per computer lab to remove the virus.<\/p>\n

Wait\u2026 what?:<\/b> We wrote a story in this issue talking about a United Way event coming to the Lansdowne campus; the highlight of the festivities\u2014and it\u2019s even mentioned in the headline\u2014is a \u201chorizontal bungy jumping demo.\u201d We can\u2019t even imagine what that would look like. Talk about a fad that never took off.<\/p>\n

The landfills were getting too empty anyway: <\/b>A previous 25 Years Ago in Nexus<\/i> column talked about an old story detailing thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of reusable cups going missing from the Camosun cafeteria. This issue had a story on the end result of that: the cafeteria started using disposable dishes and cutlery. All these years\u2014and steps ahead in environmental awareness\u2014later, anyone else thinking the caf should go back to reusable dishes right about now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harshing the college\u2019s mellow: According to a story in our October 15, 1991 issue, Camosun was dealing with the \u201cstoned virus\u201d on its computers at the time. The virus, which displayed a message on computer screens calling for legalization of marijuana, was spreading throughout the computer labs at the college. Unfortunately, this was before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-october-19-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t