On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 09:08:02AM -0700, Evan N. McNabb wrote: > > 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 2400 baud modem on my new laptop and telnet > into their menu system.
Prairienet was so cool. They let you use email (with Pine), ftp, gopher, newsgroups, and telnet. They didn't have web access (no Lynx), but we didn't realize what we were missing. All of the cool stuff was on FTP anyway. Am I the only one who thought that it was so cool that terminal emulators could do Zmodem and Kermit to download stuff to your computer? Good times. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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