Ok it's Sunday...
The first time I got on the internet was around 1977. A friend dropped by the lab I worked in at Harvard and wondered if I had an MIT ITS account and I said no wasn't even sure what it was other than a time sharing system at MIT. So we had a modem and dumb terminal and dialed-in and one could create an account from the login prompt which I guess today seems mundane but really was totally unintuitive, getting logins on time shared systems generally required paper work and proof one should have access. And I became BARRYS@MIT-AI (no stinkin' dots back then.) He showed me some ARPAnet things and I was suitably amazed and explored more from home where I had my own dumb tty and modem. TBH I didn't really have much use for it at the time other than joining mailing lists or similar. Occasionally if someone was in the room I'd say "watch this!" and get to a login prompt at Stanford or UCL (London.) They were usually impressed. I did use the local area network to access MIT-MC to use MacSyma (a symbolic math package) which I did use in my work. I was fairly amazed that my files were visible on either machine. etc etc etc. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*