1994. Introduction session to the internet, at Edinburgh University. Being told to swap email-addresses with the person sat on your left, and send them an ema

1994. Introduction session to the internet, at Edinburgh University. Being told to swap email-addresses with the person sat on your left, and send them an email. Later I had a machine running Netscape Communicator, with 8Mb of RAM, and lauching was so much faster if you started up with "-no-java" that I remember it even now. Would have been RedHat 3.9/4.0, or so? Just after I tried out Slakware, and just before I moved to Debian. (Of course all the home usage would have been on dialup, in the UK. I still remember the different noises of the modem negotiation. You could tell if it was going to be super-fast 28k, or 14k just from listening to the negotiation-noises. Almost as memorable and distinctive sounds as those from the ZX Spectrum tape-loader, if you're the same age as me!)