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    • When I started using the Internet, shortly after electricity was discovered...

    • The only thing that existed were local bulletin boards, which I dialed into using a 300bps modem from my 8088 clone (with a 30mb hard drive and 64k of memory). If you weren't DOS kewl you could do nothing. Our editor was a lovely little tool called Edlin which I am positive Bill Gates created as some sort of sadistically cruel joke. Even email did not exist. I am convinced that if I were sent to hell, this would be my configuration for all eternity.

       
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    digitaldrz said:
    I too was an early user of online communication when the Internet was available to a few universities working for the Department of Defense. I plan to share my experiences but I would like to suggest a possible minor correction in your post. The hard drive was 30Kb not 30mb, if my memory serves me. Do you recall for sure?
    posted over 2 years ago
    DeepPlinker said:
    I'm thinkin' 30mb. My first computer was actually an Atari with a tape drive, external floppy and a B&W TV for a monitor. Don't tell anyone tho, I figured the 8088 was scary enuf :x
    posted over 2 years ago

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