I've seen and used hypertext markups for books and educational purposes long before the web existed. I used gopher and finger, and gated newsgroups to the FidoNet and GlobalNet. We were pioneers, real communities, met once every week and exchanged larger files on disks. And we could hear the stream of data in lonely nights with the modem lights instead of stars.
Bigfoot. Paid for Netscape Navigator Gold. Annoyed news group users and got flamed for killing their 7 bit digests by using curly quotes and umlauts :-D
EBCDIC. Typing 10 pages of data listings in a computer mag when there was no tape drive to save it only to feel the horror of seeing my 4k RAM machine crashing after you entered RUN. Nibble copy and X-Copy. Encrypted loaders on track 80 and 81. Punching holes in 5.25 floppy disks to to double it's capacity. Cursing and smiling about the stupidity and the elegance of 6502 assembly. Coding and playing all day, watching 80s horror movies all night in the summer holidays. Writing your first song using a tracker like oktalyzer. Zyxel Turbo modems. Coding a Centipede clone in Microsoft basic 2.0.
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I've seen and used hypertext markups for books and educational purposes long before the web existed. I used gopher and finger, and gated newsgroups to the FidoNet and GlobalNet. We were pioneers, real communities, met once every week and exchanged larger files on disks. And we could hear the stream of data in lonely nights with the modem lights instead of stars.
Bigfoot.
Paid for Netscape Navigator Gold.
Annoyed news group users and got flamed for killing their 7 bit digests by using curly quotes and umlauts :-D
EBCDIC. Typing 10 pages of data listings in a computer mag when there was no tape drive to save it only to feel the horror of seeing my 4k RAM machine crashing after you entered RUN. Nibble copy and X-Copy. Encrypted loaders on track 80 and 81. Punching holes in 5.25 floppy disks to to double it's capacity. Cursing and smiling about the stupidity and the elegance of 6502 assembly. Coding and playing all day, watching 80s horror movies all night in the summer holidays. Writing your first song using a tracker like oktalyzer. Zyxel Turbo modems. Coding a Centipede clone in Microsoft basic 2.0.
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