My hippie bus is all orggy

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

Oops sorry fat fingered it and send it as a single reply.

On 6/17/05, Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> Lets see... 1993, I remember being part of the Sierra Network... I know in 
> 1994 I was all kinds of excited that I picked up a used computer of my very 
> own. It was an 8088... 20mb hard drive that sounded like a jet engine 
> starting up... Paid $500 for it, and my buddy slapped the shit out of me. 
> HAHA 
>  "What d'ya mean I can't run Windows 3.1?"
>  About this time I discovered his Pentium 50mhz or was it 66mhz? (the 
> FIRST one) could play really cool games like Xwing, Descent, and oh god 
> yes... PRIVATEER. Doom was later for me... and Duke Nukem 3D. I remember 
> making a 100+ ft serial cable to go from SATCOM to the MOUSE HOUSE on the 
> ship for this purpose. 
>  I actually keep an old Toshiba 486 SX25 for the SOLE purpose of playing 
> Privateer. (I DID get it to work in XP, but it's not the same.)
>  I lived in SF and had friends that were part of AOL around 95 so I got a 
> demo account for a while. Did a couple WESTPAC's and then I came home and 
> got one of the first DSL lines in Seattle. 1998? Maybe 99...
>  Who woulda thunk?
>   
> 
>  On 6/17/05, Eric S <scirocco@vintagewatercooleds.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > C Boyko said:
> > > Which begs the question, how many on this list were online in 1993? 
> > I'm
> > > not 
> > > sure if we had that primitive text based service (offered through 
> > ministry
> > > of Ed) at that point or not. I was probably busy chasing kids anyway, 
> > but
> > > things have sure changed since then.
> > >
> > > Cathy
> > 
> > Oh yes...I was "online" back then. BBSing and the like. Thats why when I
> > first joined the list back in 96 I was still using my old BBS handle
> > "NightShadow".
> > 
> > I watched the BBSs die slowly, as they all started to 
> > interconnect....many 
> > of them just became ISPs in the end, the BBS system long expanded and
> > integrated into what we now know as the Internet.
> > 
> > Funny, the popularity of forums now a days...so much like the BBS 
> > systems
> > of the early 90s. (you log in, read messages posted, send PMs, basically 
> > 
> > the same thing a BBS was).
> > 
> > --
> > Eric
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> > 
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> > 1981 Rabbit Truck LX Diesel -FOR SALE-
> > 1990 Corrado TDI -FOR SALE- 
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> > 1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)
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> > 
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