Ten things meme

[kengr]

(stolen from almost everyone)
Ten things I don't think anyone else on my flist has done

1. gone skinny dipping in the snow. (Yes, walk thru snow on ground to natural body of water, jump in. swim for a bit get out, walk back to clothes)
2. dressed as a Buddhist monk, complete with shaved head.
3. Worn a dress while sporting a full beard.
4. taken 550 V AC across the chest (from one hand to the other, stupid accident)
5. reported a ROM BIOS error and later noted that the error was corrected on the new machines in stores.
6.fed cake to a hunky porn star.
7. keypunched my own FORTRAN IV programs
8. written a login/password harvester
9. installed illegal phone extensions
10. helped hack a mainframe
bonus
11. Own (not owned) a TRS-80 Model I
12. Been BBS sysop
13. Am a member of Fidonet

Comments

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Well, but www and most newsgroups got going a bit later, didn't they? Although I think we had newsgroups around 93, when I came to the internet.

[kengr]

Ok, newsgroups were usenet, which overlaps the internet a lot, but like email also included lots of systems not on the net. uucp links handled a lot of that. And it dates back to 1979. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/software/part1/

Fidonet started in 1984. http://www.fidonet.org/inet92_Randy_Bush.txt
(Randy Bush was our NC here in Net 105. Odds are that I'll be the NC in the not too distant future)

The public learned about usenet in 1993 when AOL made it accessible to their customers.

www dates to 1991. Not sure when it became "known" to the public.