Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Gary Warner <gar () askgar com>]

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Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
> Well, I can't claim a .arpa, but I've been around 20+ years.  It  
> strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old  
> timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the  
> latest breakthroughs with gopher.  Because, in my experience,  plain  
> text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.

Yup.  There go those .ARPA bigots again.  My first "global" email was on
fidonet (1984), followed shortly by the WWIV BBS I ran (1986), which
could email out to a fidonet bridge, but I also was
"GLWARNER@SAMFORD.BITNET" (1989) using the Crosswell mailer on an IBM
VM/CMS 6 system (that I installed myself - the VM/CMS *AND* the
Crosswell mailer).  I also wrote my own mail client on my Windows 3.1
machine running Trumpet Winsock so that I could read my mainframe mail
from my PC, after I installed TCP/IP on the mainframe, of course.  (RED
BOOKS ARE YOUR FRIENDS)

But I guess to Rich, that would still make me a "Young'un", and I
certainly didn't have to write my own TCP to make any of that work.



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Gary Warner
Director of Research in Computer Forensics
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
gar () cis uab edu            gar () askgar com
205.934.8620               205.422.2113
Blog = http://garwarner.blogspot.com/
Home = http://www.cis.uab.edu/forensics/

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