[Sir Krustin]

Well, my fondest memories came from my BBS days, long before the Net became widely accessible outside of universities and government buildings. I remember spending an obscene amount of money for a 14.4k dual mode modem - an amount that would buy an entire machine today, and actually having the investment justified by a $200/month reduction in my long distance bills.

NANet, fidonet, and SmartNet were the going concerns, anybody remember Sparky Herring, inventor of QMail?

When I went to school, the big thing was mainframe access with a card reader, or timeshare. SPACE, Adventure, TradeWars - all fun things (illegally) played on school systems, and all the usual pranks. (Hacking the OS root to replace the logon message with "Requests for sex must be promptly fulfilled" was a memorable one....)

Ahhhh, the good ol' days, when 1000cps was a fantastic transfer rate, and the big debates were on Xmodem versus Ymodem - not Winblows versus everything else.