(This is my first message posted from my Mac OS X system; I'm playing with the included "Mail" program (derived from NeXT Mail), instead of my usual Eudora Pro. So if things look different, I'm still me. And May is still a tentacle of Medusa!) On Saturday, April 21, 2001, at 06:48 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote: > At 05:44 PM 4/21/01 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: >> Gakkk.. That's ~27 megabits/second, over half a T3. >> I remember when I could *read* all of Usenet, > > I remember (circa 1988) when I could read about 30 newsgroups. I'm > afraid you predate me by a few years. :) I had a crude ARPANet account in 1973 or so, and I accessed the Net from my lab at Intel in around 1983, but my own "real" Net access also started in 1988. A Portal account, when "civilians" first were able to get real accounts. Even then, using "rn" and "trn" and then "tin," reading all of Usenet was not something I even tried to do. --Tim May
