Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/07/06 03:49

Stan McCann wrote:

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>
> Ditto. stan@nmsua.nmsu.edu is my very oldest email address. It dates
> from the early 90's when I first got a server hooked to the Internet.
> Before the Internet went commercial. Before what we now know as the
> Internet. Try telnetting to a remote Unix system so you can use a news
> reader (I can't remember what I used way back then) all in text mode.
> There were few graphic modes back then. Some graphical computers were
> out like the Amiga, Commodore, Apple and some workstations running Unix
> and X-Windows.

Well there was BBS's my bother-in-law use to frequent, but all were long
distant numbers and I was too cheap! Got a blazing USR 14400 but all I
could use it for was faxes until 95 when AT&T Worldnet cam available,
but was long distance so religated to brief blitzes lat a night!

>
> Or worse. I know there are still folks around that were into this
> stuff a lot longer than me. I never had to experience it but I've
> heard the stories of dropping your box of punched cards. Owww.

In 70's worked with main frames where old punch cards were mostly phased
out (still in backup storage) replace by paper tape! Wow! Then mag tape!

> Internet advertising (UCE, SPAM) was a foregone conclusion the day the
> Internet was made available to commercial enterprise. I've been at
> computing, networking, server administration, and now into web
> development for over 20 years now. Being in the midst of the
> technology as it moves so fast is a blast. You take the bad with the
> good.

I'll second that!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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