Shampoo-Banana [1]

UIUC's a pretty good school. I didn't get around to finishing my degree, but I have always been proud of the school's legacy:

• HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey was born there.
• A three year old girl can become (in?)famous just by pushing a button.[2]
• It was one of the first few nodes on ARPAnet.
• Some folks at NCSA put together a little thing called Mosaic[3] (interesting to look back on this - caching was apparently a novel idea)
• One or two other people from UIUC have gone on to found very interesting companies.
• The guy who invented the LED & co-invented the transistor teaches there.
• 20 Nobel Prize winners. Nuff said.

[1] ”Shampoo Banana” is what students call Champaign-Urbana. “Chambana” is another version.
[2] She's in her 20s and married. Does she know that people still talk about her role in history?[4]
[3] I remember sitting in our ACM offices in 96 or 97, watching a friend work on adding support for blocking banners to Mosaic.
[4] I will be so proud if Jared ever does something this cool :-)

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 13, 2004
  KC,
  Enjoy the blog....yeah go Fighting Illini! Transplanted Illini in Michigan!
  Tavis
• Anonymous
  April 13, 2004
  I guess I would be dating myself by mentioning PLATO, which ran on the CYBER mainframes and was one of the first distributed WAN's around. I loved those gas plasma displays.
  
  Jeff Corey
  Engineering Graduate (BSEE)
  
  
• Anonymous
  April 13, 2004
  Jeff: I remember using something called plato, but my friends tell me it was probably novanet, a descendant. This was around 96. It was pretty revolutionary even then though. I also had a chem class where we took tests on the web, not bad for 1996.
  
  UIUC also has the CAVE, and I took a class with George Francis where we got to play in that... now that was fun.
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2004
  And how about Garcia's Pizza? THE BEST!
  
  Jeff Corey
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2004
  PapaDel's beats them all..
• Anonymous
  April 14, 2004
  Jeff: Best within walking distance, I'll give you that. Plus, they have "red pop" and uh, well, one of the managers at the time wasn't too strict about giving it to friends of his under a certain age.
  
  But yeah, papadels is the best if you have a car :-)