My First Experience of the InternetWe remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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Jesus Christ, that turns out to be a long time agoBack in 1990 I discovered the delights of the X.25 coloured book protocols. You could connect to other computers around the world, using (in my case) only a VT220 attached to a VAX. A friend introduced me to the Mono BBS, and as she was one of the few women who could be bothered to get involved in this sort of thing she was feted by many, many geeks. I even went to one of their London meets.
It never gets better. I'm still hanging around on the periphery of groups of geeks who meet up in London pubs and conform to stereotype.
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foop, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 21:33,
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FWIW, Monochrome BBS is still going.
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VAX?I go online using my Henry - he smiles, y'know.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 9:28,
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