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Re: How many..........

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 4:09 pm
by Steve Plonk
I was getting tutorials on the net in 1991-92, but I didn't first check out the net until 1998. I helped my daughter get info from an embassy on the library computer system. I got my first computer and posted the first time in 1999...

There used to be a system called ERIC, in the eighties, and it was used for interlibrary and intercollegiate posting of sources and papers for educational purposes. I used that. So, I don't know if that counts as an "internet" but
it was some sort of a forerunner to it. (I also remember when all computer programs had to be coded & be "punched in" on "punch cards" and then submitted.)

Re: How many..........

Posted: October 15th, 2010, 8:42 pm
by still.trucking
About the same as you Mark, litkicks nine or ten years ago. I started writing on computers around thirty years ago. I still got a box of floppies from my apple //e. It seemed so magical to me like writing with light. I loved that black screen with the green text.

Re: How many..........

Posted: October 19th, 2010, 4:41 pm
by WIREMAN
...i remember the hullabaloo about windows 95 but still did not jump in until the new millenium.....

Re: How many..........

Posted: October 24th, 2010, 11:58 pm
by hester_prynne
I came on round the same time you did Wireman, maybe just a tad after.
Thanks for the reminder..9 years of writing on the internet is an achievement of sorts!
H 8)

Re: How many..........

Posted: October 26th, 2010, 6:37 pm
by WIREMAN
.we're out here on the fringe hest....still exploring uncharted waters.....an achievement of sorts indeed..........