Indeed it was! Also an insider kind of thing. To get info directly from the .plan file, one had to be on the network and generally running a UNIX, or able to

Indeed it was! Also an insider kind of thing. To get info directly from the .plan file, one had to be on the network and generally running a UNIX, or able to build tools on whatever OS... Was really fun to get online early on. I had a shell account, useful for the many times I was using a DOS PC On occassions, I would end up showing people "the Internet" and explaining things like finger, email, USENET were fascinating in what people would ask, or when they wanted to drive. People would often want to print stuff out so they could read it later, like USENET, or talk about it with others. "I was on the Internet with a friend, lookie here..." I did that too and which I had kept a few pages. But yeah. Kind of amazing really. We all would just read John's file, in his home directory, no worries. Crazy to think about today.