ComputerWorld Canada staff

Back in the late 1990s, this Canadian pilot fish

Some really creative PR flacks over at Dotworlds.net recently cooked up a press release detailing the bizarre events they claim unfolded after the firm made some new domain names available. Below is an edited version of the account:

Help desk pilot fish is given a new laptop and told get a PCMCIA network card configured for an executive. He struggles for a while to load the drivers in Windows NT 4.0.

A Georgia movie theatre recently drew complaints from some customers after its computer randomly assigned the number 666 to tickets for Mel Gibson's new film, "The Passion of the Christ."

Dr. Harvey Gellman, who died last year at the age of 79, was one of Canada's computer pioneers and most distinguished consultants.

A recent survey by Aon Consulting in Toronto has found that Canadian high technology employees are slightly less committed to their employers than they were last year.

1999 - It was reported that Intel's Pentium III had made its debut, Toronto-based Hummingbird announced it was buying another Toronto-based company, PC-DOCS.1998 -...

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