Indeed. Before I clicked over to the article, I had a gut feeling... The first time I ever connected to "the Internet" was over a packet radio link from my hom

Indeed. Before I clicked over to the article, I had a gut feeling... The first time I ever connected to "the Internet" was over a packet radio link from my home, in a very rural area, through a digipeater at a (relatively) nearby ham radio club and then to the nearest university. I had "borrowed" a login and was able to telnet into one of their UNIX servers and send/receive mail, use archie, gopher, etc. Of course, I don't really miss that 1200 baud extremely high latency connection but the convers servers were really cool.