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dar512 is now Pete Zicato
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago suburb
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Apple II and Atari were prior. However Commodore did market better at the price point. They sold a boatload of computers before IBM brought out their PC.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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We had a Heathkit terminal in our house starting in around 1980 or so and we could call into the mainframe at the college where my dad worked using a screaming fast 300 baud modem. It was linked to the Dartmouth college computer, where they had a chat room. So my first chat/forum experiences were in the early 80's.
It was all text then, each "post" would follow another as a big long text document. The posts were separated only by a couple carriage returns and then a header to tell who was making the post. You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times. |
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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I'm sure you would never do anything like that, though.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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That's neat. Did the whole family like Wuthering Heights?
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