Yes, I (a student at the time at a midwest USA university) remember being on a BITNET relay chat in the fall of 1989 chatting with a German university student w

Yes, I (a student at the time at a midwest USA university) remember being on a BITNET relay chat in the fall of 1989 chatting with a German university student while the Berlin Wall was falling down. To me that was magical - it was like having a teleporter and being "virtually" there instead of just watching the news on TV.