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Old 07-03-2004, 04:06 PM   #7
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Join Date: March 29, 2002
Location: Canada
Age: 52
Posts: 2,534
Long before the internet, I used a service that was called iNet. I think it's long since gone now, but that was the days of the 300baud modem, where you actually had to place the receiver of your telephone in the cradle.

You could actually type faster than the screen would display the words that were "downloaded." I don't recall exactly what I did, because at that time there wasn't really much to do.

I was out of touch with computers from the late 1980's to the end of the 90's, and let me tell you, it was staggering at the advancements that had been made.

I used to program using GW Basic back in the 8086 days, since that was really the only language available. I dabbled in Pascal and Fortran in University, but today with Java, C+, C++, it sounds more like you need piano lessons to program a computer.
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