> P.S.  Anyone remember back when there were several free Internet dial-up
> services?  It wasn't that long ago, really.  I can remember Netzero,
> Juno, and FreeWWW.  Which ones do you all remember and why?

My first ISP was prairienet.org back in Illinois (1993 - 1994). It was
an organization funded by the U of I that was pretty popular back in the
day. I'd dial up with the 2600 baud modem on my new laptop and telnet
into their menu system. I remember the day Andrew showed me a backdoor
in the menu system that gave you shell access (although I had no clue
what to type, but it seemed cool). Ah, the chess servers, gopher, pine,
and the text-based web. 

-Evan 

P.S. I have to admit that Andrew was the one that got me started with
computers. And to think I used to call him a nerd...

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