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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My mum did her PhD on using the Internet as a teaching tool. Or some such.
She completed it 6 mths before she died of lung/brain cancer. She was 64.
She used to tell me about how her first job with computers was with Rolls Royce. In the 50's. Back then computers were the size of buildings with lots of valves and moving parts. I/O (input & output) was cardboard punchcards. I'm guessing it probably had a hand-crank somwhere.
She first got online sometime in the 80's on a "little" unix workstation she brought home (size of a really large fucking suitcase!) - it was probably something like JANET as it was thru her uni that she connected.
I even got to play a network "Kings Quest" game on a dosbox she brought home from work a few times.
Oh how far we've come - nought to pr0n in 3 sec.
(, Tue 27 Mar 2012, 0:32, Reply)
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