Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

[David Hardy]

True enuff;  and I made a little boo-boo:  EasyNET was around in the
glorious '80s, too!  We were running VMS, natch, and little old me got
jammed up behind a couple of posts I made there concerning contemporary
international politics, about which I will say no more, as I don't wish to
have the repercussions I got back then.

EasyNET had a slew of various threads on all kinds of interests and was the
predecessor, at least as far as I'm concerned in my own experience, of
places like AOL's and CompuServe's forums, and Salon's Table Talk (where I
also got jammed up a couple of times)

Oh Lordy, now the memories are flooding back: USENET, and in my own neck of
the woods in suburban Beantown back then, the Boston Computer Society's BBS,
which I accessed through a DEC Rainbow, the machine I also used to login to
DEC VAXen at work to monitor various jobs and processes from home.

Ain't it great to be one of the surviving dinosaurs?

cheers, from rainy northern Vermont today...

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, David Hardy <belovedbold357 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > And let's not forget EasyNET, people, at DEC, back in the glorious '90s.
>
>   Heck, back then, everyone had a cool name for their own network.  ;-)
>
> -- Ben Scott @ FidoNet 1:324/127.4
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