Packet radio was my first introduction to the Internet and Linux(late 1993). I was on a weekend campout as a Boy Scout and the local ham club did a demo for us.

Packet radio was my first introduction to the Internet and Linux(late 1993). I was on a weekend campout as a Boy Scout and the local ham club did a demo for us. Already being a (young) computer nerd, packet radio was the most interesting part to me. A few months later I took the test and received my first ham radio license. Thanks to digipeaters and an Internet gateway (for the "converse" server), I was able to sit in my (very rural) home and chat with folks on other continents a couple of years before dial-up was even available in my area and my station's hostname and IP address are still present in the ampr.org DNS zone twenty years later. --n9wwv