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> I was a very early adopter of that new-fangled Internet. I been connected up since my Coherent days in 1991 If you were a very early adopter of the Internet

> I was a very early adopter of that new-fangled Internet. I been connected up since my Coherent days in 1991 If you were a very early adopter of the Internet in 1991... then how should we describe the activities of Douglas Englebert or Vint Cerf 2 decades prior? 1983-85 I dialed into BBS, which was fun, but not as interesting as dialing up and logging into UF servers without credentials, exploring lists and exploiting resources when everyone was asleep. That was 6th-8th grades for me. In Fall of 1989 I was forced to purchase an expensive A/UX license, and I am still enamored with it. Then I was lost in desktop publishing for nearly a decade before my first IT jobs using NetWare in the late 1990s, to using (not admin) RedHat servers in 2001, which happened to coincide with Win2K and Mac OS X desktops I set my team up to use. I utterly spoiled them with 2 desktops each.

simonblack 5y ago
.. then how should we describe the activities of Douglas Englebert or Vint Cerf 2 decades prior? That's very true. In relative terms, I was an early adopter. I clearly remember the buzz that went around when somebody told us that there were now the unbelievable number of 'one million nodes on the Net'. That was four years or so before MSFT 'got religion' and turned on a dime to provide Web software. (Much as I dislike MSFT, that was really fantastic, fast work!) These days of course, a million nodes more or a million nodes less is merely 'daily noise level'.
- Maursault 5y ago
  For whatever reason, no one uses "World Wide Web." You were an impressively very early adopter of the WWW, or web. Excuse me, please, I've trolled better.