Damn! It's been 15 years!

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

I'm not talking about the prior BBS days, or anything else. Just the InterWebs

We had out first one-line, 2 hours a night, BBS back in 1985 when I was in my last year of university. Just a silly thing I ran off of Blue Board on my old Commodore 64. Moved it from there to an Amiga and then to an IBM-AT. It was because of the BBSes that we got onto the 'net so early.

Oh, the days of the one line /modem and the speakeasy relay network. I used Renegade software.
When I Set up my first server for the Internet, I used 2 phone lines, with 2 28.8 modems, and served my website from my very own Pentium 75. (Or was it still a 386? can't remember)
I used SLMail, and fought NOT to be a relay station.

A friend of mine set up as a local ISP. They bought a T-1 line, (Which was HUGE back then, and had 40 modems lined up on metal shelf brackets you buy in the hardware store.

Wild days.