Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

What is that?

Netcom was a shell provider - you'd dial into a *nix shell. Not sure what
they used back then...

You'd have Elm and PINE for email, tin for news, and gopher clients. And
FTP. A tilde web space if you were lucky (http://netcom.com/~username)


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Re: Re: Testing
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Fri Oct 08 2021 06:48 am

Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

What is that?

Netcom was a shell provider - you'd dial into a *nix shell. Not sure what they used back then...

You'd have Elm and PINE for email, tin for news, and gopher clients. And FTP. A tilde web space if you were lucky (http://netcom.com/~username)

ICG becomes Level 3, someone aquired someone else and it all became something else at some point.

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