Wow, I had honestly never heard of that holiday before!
And do I understand the Wikipedia article correctly that this is also the root of “Thanksgiving”?
That would actually be quite funny! 😆
BTW, we also light huge bonfires here in Germany around that time of year (11.11), but without any fireworks. It’s to celebrate St. Martin’s Day.
ls this rooted in some older tradition, like the “getting rid of the old year’s ghosts” on New Year’s Day, or something new?
Sooo… What’s the lore behind “bonfire night”?
Special occassion?
Opening a telnet connection to a friend’s workstation who had started studying at another university.
Using the UNIX “talk” command to chat.
Yes, I am old.
Is it common at your place to have fireworks at Halloween?
Doesn’t that destroy the spooky atmosphere?
The Star-Trek thing was also the first thing I did as soon as “traditional” web became available to me.
Grainy 240x160px images showing Data or Picard on some crude fan made pages!
I was so incredibly thrilled! :-)