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From my profile: Date Registered: 08-11-2001 Total Posts: 3016 I guess I've been talking too much!
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(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).]
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As do we all Bill.
This really is the "global village" of what was previously science fiction, isn't it?
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It's probably fair to say that "the internet" was science fiction 20 years ago.
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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.
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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.
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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>
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