I was lucky in the early 90s in that my dad had a PC for work. A 14.4 modem and random BBS’s to dial up to, and I got an interesting first experience with computers. Our local library had UNIX PCs, so I had to learn random protocols like telnet and gopher to access anything. Once I got to middle school we had labs like this. I definitely miss the LAN café feel of that era.
Man, I remember being blown away after getting a 14.4 modem after dialing up with my 2400 from the family 286… Data was instant, those ANSI greetings from the BBS were just there.
I was lucky in the early 90s in that my dad had a PC for work. A 14.4 modem and random BBS’s to dial up to, and I got an interesting first experience with computers. Our local library had UNIX PCs, so I had to learn random protocols like telnet and gopher to access anything. Once I got to middle school we had labs like this. I definitely miss the LAN café feel of that era.
Man, I remember being blown away after getting a 14.4 modem after dialing up with my 2400 from the family 286… Data was instant, those ANSI greetings from the BBS were just there.
I long for the days of random people running a BBS and no centralized social media