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I guess I've been talking too much!

(and he took a vacation for 6 months)



P.S. you guys are great!
I don't always have time to keep up with you here, but I learn something most every time I come here.

Bill

[This message has been edited by Bill Addiss (edited 08-19-2003).]

As do we all Bill.

This really is the "global village" of what was previously science fiction, isn't it?

It's probably fair to say that "the internet" was science fiction 20 years ago.

I was on the 'internet' 20yr ago. It was a dial-up connection to Texas that the computer was programmed to do at 2am when the phone rates were cheap. That would make the refresh rate 24hr.

Same here. Back around 1982 I was using a local FidoNet BBS which offered the usual Fido EchoMail conferences, along with e-mail access to the Internet.

The Fido "mail hour" in the early part of the morning meant that messages didn't get through as quickly as with a direct, permanent link to the ARPA/Internet, but it was very efficient in other ways. Once the propert script were written, I used ZIP files for uploaded and downloaded messages, and a QWK off-line mail reader that puts all the latest software to shame in terms of functionality vs. compactness.

Oh My. That takes me back - - I Used to run a BBS back then - and I was a FidoNet "Node" with quite a few sub-nodes

And I had TWO dial up lines for the users - quite a rarity back then......

Oh how time has changed things.

</nostalgia>