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oh, nostalgia! the web without Google, without web-based search engines even, without even a browser available (no good anyway without web-based search engines)... yet I did search the web! via Archie, used via email! I just found a printout of a result for the search 'archie [find java]', 25 Dec 1995. I am definietly NOT going to throw that away :D #web #history #search #archie
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@mcnalu those were exciting times, in the early days of the web. You could also 'browse' via a small number of email services (initially, there was only one run by Cern). At the office, we only had a mainframe and text-mode dumb terminals, and internal mail - but I'd figured out how you could actually send mail outside via IBM Mail eXchange... So I used that combine with the email services to do research on the web from a dumb terminal :D
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@mk sounds fun. I first sent email from an IBM 3090 (I think) from an ADM3A terminal. Didn't get as stuck as you by the sounds of it.
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@mcnalu it was lots of fun! "officially" sending mail outside was not "possible" but the option was open because another IT department needed it :D I found out via an outside contact, and then it was a bit of trial and error... and then I was told not to 'advertise' the possibility. Hah. I did useful things with it, so they let me.
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