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Johannes Ernst /
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2023-09-01 20:13:09

Johannes Ernst on Nostr: I think I have been on the internet for 33 years now. 1990 sounds about right. The ...

I think I have been on the internet for 33 years now. 1990 sounds about right.

The original wow factor for me was Usenet. You could just run this app — it wasn’t called an app then — on a close Apollo workstation, in my case, and have these incredibly knowledgeable discussions on arcane subjects you’d never find anybody in real life to talk about, and with people around the world. For free, too!

If you were patient because I think for about 30 people we had one 9600 baud line.
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