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[Hazza]

in 1989 i was 6 years old and had no idea that such thing as the internet existed. i was more into my transformer toys and turtles

I still am

[Get Real!]

When the Internet first came (early nineties) it was available only via some BBS’ that (somehow) attained access to it (paid?), and this was the very first browser we used for a graphical interface that run under DOS!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser)

Neat eh?

Err, grab the whole thing for the link to work!

[Sotos]

The internet did not become big until 1995 with win95 and 33.6k modems

[paliometoxo]

my first modem was a 56k was supposed to be really fast

[cyprusgrump]

300 baud acoustic coupler. RS-232 (the non-standard, standard) interface to computer!

[CBBB]

300 baud acoustic coupler. RS-232 (the non-standard, standard) interface to computer!

You were lucky, we used to dream of a 300 baud acoustic coupler!