My memories of the early Internet were a little earlier. I hope this is ok hearing from a geezer. My first memories of the Internet were from the late 1980s as a young university student. I somehow managed to score a Unix account on the mainframe.
Email, and sending & receiving to Listserves. I kept hoping my girlfriend at a different university could get connected, but it never came to be.
Comedy by email through The Internet Oracle. I was one of the “priests” (editors) of the service for a while. Basically you would send an anonymous email (!!!) to the service that would be sent out to people, and your get a random question out of it, to answer in a humorous manner.
I remember the incredible mind-blowing feeling when I first discovered Internet Relay Chat in about 1988. It was an all text interface, pre-windowed environment.
My memories of the early Internet were a little earlier. I hope this is ok hearing from a geezer. My first memories of the Internet were from the late 1980s as a young university student. I somehow managed to score a Unix account on the mainframe.
Email, and sending & receiving to Listserves. I kept hoping my girlfriend at a different university could get connected, but it never came to be.
Comedy by email through The Internet Oracle. I was one of the “priests” (editors) of the service for a while. Basically you would send an anonymous email (!!!) to the service that would be sent out to people, and your get a random question out of it, to answer in a humorous manner.
I remember the incredible mind-blowing feeling when I first discovered Internet Relay Chat in about 1988. It was an all text interface, pre-windowed environment.
I still miss Usenet forums.
Wait, is this Wiz, like as in Wizcraft’s Iptables Block lists?
Sorry, no. Not that cool. Just some other boring Wiz.
I wouldn’t call an InternetOracle Priest boring
Haha! Thanks! 😎