I was working and studying at Sydney Uni when we joined the net. I remember pinging Stanford. I had a weird out-of-body feeling as I did it. How could lil ol

I was working and studying at Sydney Uni when we joined the net. I remember pinging Stanford. I had a weird out-of-body feeling as I did it. How could lil ol' me in Australia command machinery in the USA to respond?! Within weeks, some of us were viewing the X displays of people in Sweden, and grabbing /etc/passwd files from everywhere via open broken ftp servers. Good times! I already had access to Usenet though; via a Fidonet relay. Thanks Nick Andrew!