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Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates

Summary

Offbeat

A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption. The caller was building a Van Halen fan site using FrontPage, and it wasn't going well.

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The Registeras they published this story 12.1

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