Why, when I was a kid, I'd lift the receiver and wait for the operator to ask 
for the number to call.  That number had letters in it!  (Of course, this was 
possible only if none of the neighbors happened to be using the party line at 
the moment.)

--
richard

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Ben Scott
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Exchange list?

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Daniel Chenault <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why, when I was a kid in the then-new interwebz we had dig. You kids 
> with your fancy-schmancy browser-based search engines... We didn't 
> have no stinkin' browser! And we LIKED it cu we didn't know any better!
> You kids get off my lawn!

  You had an Internet connection?  Luxury!  Why, when I was kid, I was dialing 
into BBSes and downloading files with XMODEM!  ;-)

-- Ben




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