When I got on the net in 1990, my dialup ISP sysadmin had all home directories were globally readable, "so we can learn from one another." And we did! That sa

When I got on the net in 1990, my dialup ISP sysadmin had all home directories were globally readable, "so we can learn from one another." And we did! That same admin had made cool menus and guide posts, documents that showed everyone about the net. We had many system wide chats about stuff and everyone was all about helping everyone else. Then we had the Eternal September... or was it December. In any case, for a couple years there before we got the first browser. Everyone was mentored onto the Net in the early days. I wish that would have continued, but it would never have scaled, ah well. Yes, I had a list of machines I could telnet to. Each offering some resource. Oh, one cool thing was being able to ask for a bigger disk quota, download some big stuff and swing by the office to move it onto portable storage. SCSI disk or floppy or tape. I loved those chats right there in the server room!