[freedumb2003]

BITNET was almost parallel.

It was so College Professors could work on thesis together easier.

I had an email account in 1985 (PROFS).

[JoanVarga]

In 1987 we were living in Mexico City and paying our state-side bills by a dial-up service to our bank. We were using a Kaypro Lunchbox computer at the time. Not quite Internet, but pretty darn close. We also had an IBM mini-laptop that ran MS Windows on 8 megs of RAM. That was back in 1991, 1992 or some such. Dinosaur.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I tried using PROFS around 1980. It was useless. We couldn't get anybody to use it. It was FAR easier to have the secretary type up a memo and toss it in here...