[freedumb2003]

btdt

I have been doing online communications since it was BITNET, over 10 years ago. We invented the internet shorthand.

Or, if you will...

bn o/l > 10 yrs nbd

(btdt=been there done that, nbd=no big deal)

[Ramius]

Yah... This reporter has evidently never heard of IRC. This stuff is not only not new... it's close to becoming passe.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Let's see - first time online was back in 1977, on the old ARPANET backbone, talking with a friend of mine in California. Using a highspeed 150 baud acoustic coupler modem, with a thermal printer for a display system. I was fourteen.

After that, got back into computers again in 1987, after I got my C-128, and that screaming 1200 baud cartridge modem. What a long, strange trip it's been