Davel23

HEY! LISTEN!

You’d probably enjoy Hard Ticket to Hawaii.

Around the mid-80s a friend of mine set up a public-access Unix system. You could dial in and get shell access, and from there newsgroups, email, etc. It technically wasn’t a “live” internet connection, his system dialed in to Yale each night and downloaded newsgroups and stuff via UUCP, so there was at least a day’s delay between writing messages and getting a response. I don’t remember exactly when it was but I was around for the Morris worm so it was some time before that.

8 or 9. My dad let me have a little too much Seder wine.

Our power was out for a week after a major storm in the area, but we got a generator about halfway through so it was really only three or four days.

Edit: When I was a kid my mom worked at a summer camp for two months out of the year and I came along too, there were only two buildings there with electricity.