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TOPIC: When did you get on the web?
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travelers122227
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I don't want to derail the "hunting/shooting"thread, but GGMM stated there she had been online since the early '90s with USENET, which started me thinking. When did the rest of us "get online"?
In 1988 I was a young, upcoming field engineer and technology was coming on fast. In '88, I was moved to a salaried position, got my first company vehicle, and a "portable" computer. Please note that "portable" simply means it could be folded into a unit and carried. No battery but still weighed 22 pounds IIRC. It was simply not a desktop and so could be taken out on job sites, hence portable with orange letters on a black screen and a DOS operating system. Toshiba I think. One of our company owner partners was a tech nerd at the time. He was first and I was second of anyone in the company not only having email, but most others had never even heard of email, or a bulletin board to share information. I had learned if from my dad back in the early '80s as he was a techno wizard. I am personally still not tech savvy, but an avid user for a long time, and far, far from an IT guy or knowledgeable about how this magic actually works.
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