I'm sick and feverish at the moment, so if this doesn't make any sense, just pretend that I'm posting drunk.
I've been in the computer revolution for a damn long time. Started on some Ohio Scientific boxes, then regressed a bit to an Olivetti mainframe that read punch cards and transferred their coding to a magnetic strip on the card. Then into Radio Shack's TRS-80, which was a total piece of junk - believe it or not, the cases were held together with what looked like hardened bubble gum. Then Timex-Sinclairs, God, what a piece of junk keyboard! And Osborne or 2 (birth of the laptop, folks! If a laptop can have a built in CRT and weigh nearly 25 lbs.) Then the first Apples, then the original IBM XT, and I've been a PC guy ever since. I still have 8" floppies somewhere. I should probably send them to a museum.
My Jr High school had a connection to what evolved into the internet, eventually, (I *think*) that was in '82 or '83. No CRT, just a teletype machine that you could punch in requests for advice on math problems. The response came back on punch tape, and it wasn't the speediest system around, that's for sure. Beat snail mail, though!
I've been through the BBS world, and FIDOnet, watched as it was replaced with IRC... I remember when USEnet was actually for posting messages. Heh.
The internet really is run by Porn and Gambling - that's where all the real money is. Anyone who says differently is trying to sell something, either to you or to themselves.
I've been in the computer revolution for a damn long time. Started on some Ohio Scientific boxes, then regressed a bit to an Olivetti mainframe that read punch cards and transferred their coding to a magnetic strip on the card. Then into Radio Shack's TRS-80, which was a total piece of junk - believe it or not, the cases were held together with what looked like hardened bubble gum. Then Timex-Sinclairs, God, what a piece of junk keyboard! And Osborne or 2 (birth of the laptop, folks! If a laptop can have a built in CRT and weigh nearly 25 lbs.) Then the first Apples, then the original IBM XT, and I've been a PC guy ever since. I still have 8" floppies somewhere. I should probably send them to a museum.
My Jr High school had a connection to what evolved into the internet, eventually, (I *think*) that was in '82 or '83. No CRT, just a teletype machine that you could punch in requests for advice on math problems. The response came back on punch tape, and it wasn't the speediest system around, that's for sure. Beat snail mail, though!
I've been through the BBS world, and FIDOnet, watched as it was replaced with IRC... I remember when USEnet was actually for posting messages. Heh.
The internet really is run by Porn and Gambling - that's where all the real money is. Anyone who says differently is trying to sell something, either to you or to themselves.
