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To: Greysard
I'm using Internet since its early days, with Trumpet Winsock and PPP/SLIP and Linux 1.x. I guess I'm an early adopter - and an early unadopter too, if there is such a word.

Pooh. I used it long before DNS, let alone SLIP.

38 posted on 10/21/2011 11:31:37 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: ccmay
Greysard:
I'm using Internet since its early days, with Trumpet Winsock and PPP/SLIP and Linux 1.x. I guess I'm an early adopter - and an early unadopter too, if there is such a word.

ccmay:
Pooh. I used it long before DNS, let alone SLIP.

*chuckle* I had a BITNET address; A0S5000::UMASS -- store-and-forward overnight on dialup between mainframes.

But, then, I started in computing loading long trays of hollerith cards into cardreaders attached to room sized mainframes the can't measure up to a stripped-down cel phone. My, my; how things have changed...
82 posted on 10/22/2011 6:18:25 AM PDT by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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