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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Ahh, 1985Yes, 1985. University of Reading. A time of steam-powered Amdahl mainframes, VT52 terminals, and Usenet before the Great Renaming.
Ahh, Usenet was great before the coming of spam, AOL and the binary groups. The rec.sf-lovers group was where I hung out, looking into a green screen and communicating with others around the world until the wee hours of the morning.
Like a reverse version of Proust's madeleine, this brings back memories of smells - floor polish, mostly, and the smell of hot toner from the rather weird electrostatic printer in the corner of the computer room.
Happy days. In those days you could have a serious discussion of what the less audible lyrics of "2112" actually were, or share the MIDI specifications for the Casio CZ-101 synthesizer.
Of course these days it's all pirated viagra.
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Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 23 Mar 2012, 11:09,
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