BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: people with autism
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Thu, 7 May 2026 07:52:17 -0700
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-=> Nightfox wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 Ni> I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet
 Ni> (1995), the web already existed.  To me, "internet before the web"
 Ni> suggests BBSes and services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically
 Ni> weren't the internet (and services like AOL & such initially weren't
 Ni> connected to the internet, from what I recall).

I worked at a software company near UC Berkeley in 1993. We rebuilt our
network infrastructure, added in a Synology switch chassis.

Back then, Cisco had a 2500 series router in a blade form factor. One
slot held the Cisco, another held a Kalpana Etherswitch, the other
blades held 16 port hubs for userland.

(amazing to think that ethernet switches cost so much that we needed to
segment each department onto a switch as a backbone, and each user port
was shared. All of the servers were switched)

Anyways, we bought a 56K line from the University and had our first
internet connection. It was eye-opening - people getting hooked on MUDs,
people getting lost in Usenet, people having internet email for the
first time, and IT searching gopher sites for information.

I associate that Eudora new email sound repeating across an open office
with that time.



information.

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