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> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:55:51AM -0000,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Sadly missed, Alba was a Glasgow BBS. One of the best.
>
> Aye. Though I never really got involved in it ... just leeched files
> because it was a local call away. The one I spent most time on was a
> BBS called Evaware, somewhere down south. That BBS died when Nick's
> (the guy who was running it) wife left him because he was spending all
> his time on the BBS. :)
>
> My first real taste of the Internet was a BBS in Grangemouth
> (who's name
> I can't remember ... it began with an 'A' too I think) which offered a
> month's free Internet access when they first setup the
> gateway. Though
> I didn't realise it at the time, it was just a Unix shell prompt with
> access to gopher, FTP, lynx, a newsreader and a mailreader.
My first taste of the internet was a Unix shell based on a dialup to a server on the Isle of Dogs or somesuch.
Because I used command line Unix on an Oracle server at work (I never did like X-Server, until now) I could just about cope with this newfangled form of news and mail.
Later on when it came time to download a GUI tcp/ip stack and mail/news software for my Amiga, I could never have done it without having used Unix at work.
This was only 1996, yet it all seems so long ago now.
cds
