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We remember when this was all fields, and lived a furtive life of dial-up modems and dodgy newsgroups. Tell us about how you came to love the internets.

(, Thu 22 Mar 2012, 11:56)
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Filthy porn early 90's style.
Way back in 1990, I was a first year Computer Science student. Some friendly second years showed me and a few of my friends how to download files from some FTP site in the US via a JANET gateway. Some of those were .GL files (sort of like a very very basic Flash video file). We thought it a jolly wheeze to leave such a file, depicting a young wench riding a St George on some well endowed fellow, running on all the 286 mono-VGA machines in one of the labs. After that came newsgroups, and gopher, and downloading UUEencoded Usenet archives from gopher, stitching them together by hand in a text editor, before decoding them and turning into jpegs so I could get more grot on a 720k floppy. I think that's where my degree went.

A couple of years after I graduated, when I was still working at McDonalds, ESCOM had a fantastic deal on 14.4k modems (£50!). I only has a Switch card then, and one of the few ISPs that accepted Switch cards had a chat function. The first evening online, a woman came through. We spoke on the phone once, and online a few times, but she wouldn't send me a picture, claiming that I'd not want to speak to her again if she did. I went through all the (for want of a better word) defects I could think of (really a man, disabled, fat, ugly, etc.) but it was none of those. I often wonder what was wrong with her...
(, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 0:02, 2 replies)
I can picture this now
> Are you fat?
< No.
> Sure? If you're a chubbster I don't mind. Send me a pic.
< No.
> Do you have a cock or something?
< No!
> Why won't you send me a pic?
(, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 2:40, closed)

because i am ur gran
(, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 9:17, closed)

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