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yathrib » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:13 pm wrote:We didn't really know just how exposed we were back then...
I was very late to the game. There weren't many household personal computers in the rust belt and even fewer modems. My family never had a computer in the house until after I left for college. However, I still have three anecdotes:
In 1994, Gretchen Apgar and husband Mike opened a cybercafe in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood with Mike's brother Tyler. They started out with offering connectivity and email services in the area. Customers at the cafe expressed a wish to have the ability to check their email from other locations than just the cafe and a series of terminal stations were set up at various bars around town. These terminals were marketed under the label, "Rainmail." As computing power expanded and the cost of computers diminished, customers began to express the further wish to access their email from home. Speakeasy put together a bank of modems and offered a dial up service. As of 2008, dialup through Speakeasy is still available for $19 a month. The move toward DSL took place in 1998.
82_28 » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:47 pm wrote:I met a girl in some alt.linguistics something or another newsgroup in prolly 1995 and we were starting to hit it off and decided to go on a date as we had very similar interests. She was going to school in Boulder. So we set a date and I drove there from Denver. Since I was a craven little kid all I can say is her name made her sound hella sexy. I won't divulge the last name but who wouldn't want to meet a gal named Ciona who was studying language at CU?
She turned out to be ugly as sin and I didn't didn't follow up. Didn't dump her or nothing. Because I was young I just let it go. I always felt hella self-conscious about flaking out on her because of how she looked. Today, from what I know now, I would have found her far more attractive no doubt because I would have been way less judgemental.
And so it goes.
I dropped the fellow an email and offered to buy the entire lot for $600 and he would pay shipping and insurance from Denver to Corvallis, OR.
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