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73. I first connected remotely to my university's...

Sun Oct 17, 2021, 02:22 PM

Oct 2021

... text-based system in the early-90's, but I can't remember the terminology or what I did to make the connection from my computer at home! That system seemed pretty useless to me overall, other than acquiring some information from some professors.

I think AOL was my first dial-up ISP, but I'm not sure if that's true either. The technological options were changing so quickly back then, it's hard for me to remember those details!

I remember that Netscape was my browser of choice in those days.

Edit:
I had to search for Pipeline, not remembering that option for me. Was it mostly only available in New York?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pipeline

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