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I just showed my age, big time, by copping to having used the internet before the web. And copping to have used Mosaic as my first browser. I feel old and...well, old.
But I'm really startled at the guy who got into IT because of Doom. I thought he was older school than that.
Mosaic was my first browser too!
I had to spend the better part of 10 minutes in a class on Monday explain what Telnet was to a student. He could not wrap his head around a text based connection between computers.
I remember logging into my dial up Delphi account so that I could use Gopher.
Also lots of chatting with friends back in California using TALK and YTALK.
I'd still telnet, if I didn't have to SSH instead.
Then I'm all FIDOnet this, newsgroups that--no need to keep pretending I'm a youngun.
eta: remember when you could finger people?
But telnet was still common when I was in coll--oh, right. Over 30.
I don't remember using Telnet, but I do remember using Homer and Fetch. And I loved that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty.
Yeah, I used telnet in college! Um, up through and past 1999. Some friends went to another school where they still had "plans" on their...whatevers, and you could "finger" them to see what they were up to. It was like facebook statuses, oldschool style, because some people changed that shit all the time, or were mad cryptic, or said where they were headed to...
you could "finger" them to see what they were up to
Um, seriously?