[ale] A little gripe

[Chris Fowler]

How about cheap PC's and fast cheap modems.  I still miss gopher.  It also seems that many Internet directories and
books were produced that time as well as starter kits for sell at Comp-USA.  How many net newbies remember
the beauty of a shell account or SLIP?  


-----Original Message-----
From: Vernard Martin [mailto:vernard at cc.gatech.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:18 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Cc: 'Jeff Hubbs'; 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: Re: [ale] A little gripe




I believe that 1996 was the birth of centralized www index like Lycos, Yahoo
and such. Before then, you couldn't find anything on the internet. Also, the
sudden influx of newbies that seemd to happen more than just in September
happened when almost unanimously, almost all universities decided to give
Internet and USENET access to all students and employees. This added
thousands of people per university and they were present all the time. Most
companies soon followed suit and aonce ISPs starting selling dialup accts
and using USENET as a selling point, we were welll and truly fscked.


Oh yeah, please edit your replies to ALE posts so that we don't get the 2nd
third generation of ">>>>" indentings. I'm not sure that the "offenders"
actually see them when they are replying. It looks like the messages they are
replying to are actually below their responese.


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