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To: Enlightened1

I sent my first email in summer 1984, on a backwater part of CSNET in Oklahoma...


3 posted on 05/29/2018 5:42:58 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

My first P2P went from Casper WY to SLC UT over AT&T [then known as Mountain Bell] normal phone lines. Both nodes were DEC PDP1011 (about the size of a small fridge).


9 posted on 05/29/2018 6:01:23 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Around 1983, I got a Commodore 64 computer with a 1541 floppy drive (I had the tape drive at first, but upgraded peripherals). I started a BBS (bulletin board system) shortly there after, and dialed into many others, trading warez, and kicking off leeches who just logged on to download new gamez.

Good times.


15 posted on 05/29/2018 8:56:46 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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