I was amazed by Usenet when I first encountered it. Communicating with people around the globe really seemed like the future had arrived. The company I worked f

I was amazed by Usenet when I first encountered it. Communicating with people around the globe really seemed like the future had arrived. The company I worked for would connect to the University of Rochester via a Telebit Trailblazer modem and from there U of R would connect to the Internet. I recall our sysadmin complaining the daily bundle was nearing 80 Meg and was straining disk space on our Sun server.