At 12:58 AM -0400 10/27/00, Peter Tonoli wrote:
>
>I'm suprised with the amount of Mac users here, that no-one's mentioned
>BBS systems such as 'firstclass'. Firstclass was the first GUI based
>terminal application I ever used - it allowed you to call BBS'es while
>retaining an interface similar t
>
> > Back in those days, I remember having a shell account at school, and
> > SLIP had just come out. Someone had written a small program that would
> > allow users to run SLIP from userland and turn a dial-up shell into a
> > net connection.
>
> Sounds like SLiRP :).. Most annoying thing set
Guess it's time for me to reminisce.. :)
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, sunder wrote:
> Back in those days, I remember having a shell account at school, and
> SLIP had just come out. Someone had written a small program that would
> allow users to run SLIP from userland and turn a dial-up shell into a
>
At 01:40 PM 10/19/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
>By the way, on a historical note, I was a Netcom customer when Netcom
>began offering their own proprietary Web browser solution. I don't
>even recall what they called it. It only ran under Windows, so we Mac
>users had to look elsewhere for our ISPs.
Tim wrote:
> AOL and CompuServe were dragged kicking and screaming into the modern
> age. A friend of mine was using AOL, against my advice, and finally
> dropped them in favor of Earthlink, around 1996. As of that time,
> they were still making promises on when their customers would be
> given re
