"first" computer on the internet

[Joost van de Griek]

On Jul 20, 2008, at 19:53, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> Hey,  anybody else out there remember fidonet?

Most certainly!

I dialled into a BBS to get my email, and also access to several  
usenet groups. This was my internet (Internet?) access until I went to  
university and got direct access via their Unix workstations at the  
faculty, and a little later via dial-up shell access at home. (Still  
through the university servers; public ISP's didn't surface in the  
Netherlands for another year or so.)

All this on my good old Philips MSX NMS-8255 with a 1200 baud modem.  
Good times!

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