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.)
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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