The internet 10 years ago

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Sun Dec 1 21:39:01 2002

At 20:46 12/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > 10 years ago, I was at Cray Research. We did trade shows over the internet
> > (might have been ARPA back then).
>
>Prolly NSFnet...ARPAnet by then was pretty much dead and buried.

And that would have been... what???

Non-Sufficient Funds net??? ;-) Bwaahaahaahaahaa!!!

Watching where our tax dollars are going, it's prolly right... ;-)

And just to put things in perspective, I've been on the net locally for
around 8 years, and this is a backwater hole (despite being the 3rd oldest
city in the US)...

But - to also put this in perspective...

Back then, AOL had a WAIS module for there software - now you can't even
send non-HTML email... :-( Altavista back then was actually *useful*...
spam was near non-existent, but when you did get it there was a chance it
might even be 1) interesting or 2) entertaining... and last, but certainly
not least... at least some of the clueless newbies a) admitted such, and b)
were more willing to buy a clue somewhere, instead of whine about all those
big meanies on the Internet that are picking on them BECAUSE THEIR LAST
EMAIL THAT LOOKED LIKE THIS oR tHiS bEcAuSe ThEy ThaWt It WaS KoOlZ...

Ah well... enough ranting...

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Sun Dec 01 2002 - 21:39:01 GMT