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1st Online Experience?
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I started a bit earlier than most... because I'm so damned old.  I'll spare you the tales of an 8-bit wonderland and 8 1/2 inch floppies... or machines using audio (cassette) tape to transfer programs that ran strictly one at a time... or having to frontload chunks of your operating system tasks with each boot-up.

Anyway, most folks don't consider it on-line unless it's Internet... but there was a time when it wasn't even considered "networking" as it was pretty much point-to-point between users.

My actual first online access came earlier than most...  (an accident of career choice)... well before "laser" discs were being distributed willie-nilly like grocery store junk mail.
But the use was mundane and of a "testing 1 2 3" nature for the most part... nothing fun.  We called it 'live electronic messaging.'   ZERO graphical interface... pretty ugly.
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1st Online Experience? - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-07-2024, 05:06 AM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by ArMaP - 10-07-2024, 06:36 AM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by Maxmars - 10-07-2024, 02:20 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-07-2024, 03:33 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by Maxmars - 10-07-2024, 03:42 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by ArMaP - 10-07-2024, 06:01 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by UltraBudgie - 10-07-2024, 03:45 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by Maxmars - 10-07-2024, 04:21 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-07-2024, 06:39 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by UltraBudgie - 10-07-2024, 08:26 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-08-2024, 02:18 AM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by ArMaP - 10-08-2024, 06:52 AM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by FlyingClayDisk - 10-07-2024, 04:06 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by putnam6 - 10-07-2024, 04:27 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by jaded - 10-07-2024, 07:52 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by CCoburn - 10-08-2024, 02:59 PM
RE: 1st Online Experience? - by ArMaP - 10-08-2024, 03:41 PM

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