No, of course not. I was merely referring to when I left CompuServe after many years and got a straight ahead internet connection from a local ISP.
You're welcome to check out my FR Profile Page for my own tech history. Yep, 300-baud phone modems, drum fax machines, and as for Assembler -- In 1974 I learned assembler on a PDP-8, where I hand-keyed-in the boot loader, then it would talk to the paper tape reader, then I could load the binary loader, and -then- I could load the line editor, and -then- I could load the assembler.... of course, loading the assembler wiped out the line editor (only 4K words of RAM).
When I graduated to the 6502 that was the CPU in my first hand-wired home brew computer, I didn't have any software at all so I hand-coded in machine language. I memorized all the machine hex, you know, like load-accumulator-immediate (LDA #) was 0xA9....
No, that's hardly the best I can do. :-)
OK, You win.