Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Steve Smith
Frank - You of the "lost generation" are definitely the frontiersmen of our domain... My first e-mail was on an ATT Unix system in 1977,  as all UUNET addresses were in those days, you had to guess (or know) the intermediate relays that would get from here to there, off the machine, much le

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Prof David West
I advised the U of M students who created gopher. Also a smalltalk browser that never gained any traction because it was smalltalk and embedded in an image. davew On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, at 11:15 AM, glen wrote: > IDK, I was fond of FTPMail and Gopher. They fit better with the BBS > interfaces I

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread glen
IDK, I was fond of FTPMail and Gopher. They fit better with the BBS interfaces I learned to love. I've forgotten if I've mentioned this here before: https://telehack.com/telehack.html I played around on it quite a bit when I first learned of it ... blast from the past. On 6/7/22 10:15, Marcus

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Usenet in 1995 was the peak of the internet civilization. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 7, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:  I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Ju

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Frank Wimberly
I had a CMU Andrew account. You're all pikers. Long live AFS. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 9:41 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > Glen wrote: > > > Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an

Re: [FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-07 Thread Steve Smith
Glen wrote: Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an aol.com suffix. I thought "Who in hell still uses AOL?" Ha! Now I've got a bad case of FOMO. But I'll be damned if I'm joining yet another Discord server ... maybe next week. I was recently back in touch w

[FRIAM] AOL 3.0!

2022-06-06 Thread glen
AOL 3.0 is Back (DRAFT, 6/5/22) https://g.livejournal.com/10829.html Just yesterday, I saw an email post to a math forum from someone with an aol.com suffix. I thought "Who in hell still uses AOL?" Ha! Now I've got a bad case of FOMO. But I'll be damned if I'm joining yet another Discord server