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Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet

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On 2014-03-13 09:13:22 +0000, RS Wood said:
> So what are your earliest memories of the web?

I used Mosaic's first public release, and before that Gopher.  I had a 
university dialup account kindly loaned to me by a friend by 1992, 
coinciding with my installation of Linux for the first time on my fancy 
486 DX/33.  I used slip in order to use TCP/IP over dialup.  Back then 
I was using IRC, reading Usenet (but not posting) and downloading wares 
off FTP sites using Archie searches.  Back then, outside of academia 
and some very high-tech businesses, very few people had internet 
access.  By 1994 I had a real dialup account with Millennium 
Communications, the first commercial ISP in my area.  In those days 
there wasn't much to do with the web (ie http / html).  Similar to 
today, there was a bit of online shopping and a few time wasting sites 
with most of it being a vast wasteland of vanity sites.

I had an Apple Newton by that time, with an external modem, and jacking 
it into a phone jack and dialing up my Unix shell account was a pretty 
neat trick that always seemed to impress folks.

The future looked a lot less dystopian back then.  Gold was cheap, the 
dollar was sound, and we had a thriving economy.

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[CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-13 09:13 +0000
  Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-13 22:49 -0700
    Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-14 09:56 +0000
      Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-14 22:04 +0000
        Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-14 22:52 +0000
    Re: [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 13:45 +0000

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