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Re: Newbee Questions
David Empson wrote:
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
Michael Kent wrote:
oldchip <oldchip@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
Can Apple2 go the Internet?
Oh yes. My Apple IIgs has been on the internet nearly every day for over
nineteen years.
Cool, Mike--you, too, were a pre-web Internet user!
There are lots of us out there. My IIgs was on the Internet around 1991,
possibly a little earlier. I've had this e-mail account that long, but
it has mutated several times. I was using local bulletin boards before
we had public access to the Internet in New Zealand (it was only
available to Universities prior to that).
I've been a BBS and AppleLink Personal Edition user since 1983-84.
I stayed with them after they became AOL, then "joined" the Internet,
at which point I registered my current email address, maintained since
then.
I stopped using my IIgs for Internet access when I got a Mac in 1996,
but I was using Lynx (text mode browser) on a shell/BBS account at my
ISP with my IIgs for a little while before that.
I never had my Apple II's connected to the Internet, but used Unix
systems to access internet mail, news, and FTP since 1981. I used
sneakernet to get files to and from the Apple II.
It was a real boon when domain naming became the norm in the early
1990s! Path names were long, error-prone, and unreliable in the
early days.
As the level of Internet connectivity and the size of archives grew,
my use of BBS's dropped, until, by the early 1990's it was practically
nil.
-michael
NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers!
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