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[looseliam]

http://telehack.com/

G-d I feel old.

 

[Corny]

now feel old and cool:
http://hackertyper.net/

 

[looseliam]

 

[pat grimshaw]

Is that from the 1980s?

 

[looseliam]

Is that from the 1980s?

ubetcha

 

[hotdog1846]

*So* cool!

I bet some of the articles in the usenet area are the same ones I found looking for naughty uuencoded pics in 1988.

 

[looseliam]

^ back when you'd pray to G-d that people made a contact sheet for the pics.

I wonder if any kids today can even imagine downloading anything at 2400baud.

 

[hotdog1846]

^ and didn't it suck when the hottest pic on the contact sheet had one part missing?

I had a 1200 baud modem as my first, and used it to dial in to the university's Unix boxes and write code. I got to be really good at guessing which line number to jump to...

 

[looseliam]

What was your editor of choice? sam, vi, ?

 

[hotdog1846]

vi ... when dialing in, anyway. Small, simple, and easy to deal with over slow connections. When I was in the lab, I favored emacs ... the go-anywhere, do-anything editor!

Remember 'talk'? Or Internet Relay Chat?

 

[looseliam]

I remember when IRC came out. I don't remember using anything before hand. Though, I didn't get into it until the very late 80's/early 90's.

I found an old binder from the late 80's. It's a list of newsgroups (not the naughty ones lol.) I remember having to sneak into the lab to use the laser printer that was off-limits to students. I remember having to split-up the 80 pages over a couple weeks.

 

[hotdog1846]

hee hee ... I found the naughty newsgroups by digging around in the configuration files for the netnews system. The University didn't formally carry those newsgroups, so I had to dig around in the "junk" area of the news spooler to get the articles.

Who says looking for naked men isn't an educational experience?

 

[looseliam]

^ it taught me all I need to know

 

[hotatlboi]

I still use vi everyday in my work.

It will never die.