I was lucky in the early 90s in that my dad had a PC for work. A 14.4 modem and random BBS’s to dial up to, and I got an interesting first experience with computers. Our local library had UNIX PCs, so I had to learn random protocols like telnet and gopher to access anything. Once I got to middle school we had labs like this. I definitely miss the LAN café feel of that era.
Man, I remember being blown away after getting a 14.4 modem after dialing up with my 2400 from the family 286… Data was instant, those ANSI greetings from the BBS were just there.
Yep. My first email address started with x.400, first BBS was Heartland Freenet, first newsreader was Usenet, 3600 baud modem at home, connecting through OCLC.
I was lucky in the early 90s in that my dad had a PC for work. A 14.4 modem and random BBS’s to dial up to, and I got an interesting first experience with computers. Our local library had UNIX PCs, so I had to learn random protocols like telnet and gopher to access anything. Once I got to middle school we had labs like this. I definitely miss the LAN café feel of that era.
Man, I remember being blown away after getting a 14.4 modem after dialing up with my 2400 from the family 286… Data was instant, those ANSI greetings from the BBS were just there.
I long for the days of random people running a BBS and no centralized social media
Yep. My first email address started with x.400, first BBS was Heartland Freenet, first newsreader was Usenet, 3600 baud modem at home, connecting through OCLC.