12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
6:09 a.m.
You obviously weren't around then, were you?
Too square, it seems. [8]
My emailing was all inside the company 1980-1987.
It was fun enough to keep me off Compuserve which
seemed like the popluar way to internet at that time,
provided it gatewayed to outside services, which I
suspect it did, smaller BBS'es probably didn't.
The tough part was finding shell accounts you could
get.
The Well was one of the first. I know that's what I had
What we're trying to find out, on two threads now, is how life
was before registered domain names. It would be nice to
see what a full email header looked like before 1985.
I was in Well territory in 1988. Had too much fun in the
real world to do virtual on my personal time.
The Foothill/Wierd/Halted thing was too damn great.
John A.