13 Jun
1997
13 Jun
'97
2:49 a.m.
At 03:16 PM 6/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
I remember showing an undergraduate how it was possible
to plug
a modem into a terminal and dial up to a shell account. He was
so amazed that the world had been easily fooled into thinking that you
need a computer to access the Internet :-)
The San Francisco Public Library has terminals (DEC VT220's?) in every
library. My girlfriend was impressed when I used Lynx to telnet to my
account to check mail one day... 8^)
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