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Con Reeder, unhyphenated American <constance@duxmail.com> wrote:
> On 2024-07-06, Joe@mich.com <Joe@mich.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 22:28:49 -0000 (UTC), "Con Reeder, unhyphenated
>> American" <constance@duxmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2024-07-03, joe@mich.com <joe@mich.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> So sad.
>>> 
>>> Yes, me too. Here is some nostalgia:
>>> 
>>> https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-true-story-as-best-i-can-remember
>>> 
>>> Remembering the first days of the Internet when we were a million of the
>>> smartest engineers and scientists connected by Usenet. Posting to newsgroups
>>> where you might get an answer from the most accomplished person in the
>>> world on a particular subject.
>>> 
>>> I was at Andreesen's first public demo of Mosaic, and came back to my
>>> company telling everyone we had to do this. I'd been on Usenet for 4 years,
>>> getting only a few newsgroups via a feed from UIUC. I didn't hit RSFC until
>>> just before eternal September, because I didn't pull anything from rec.*,
>>> only news.*, sci.*, and comp.*.
>> 
>> I first saw the internet about 1990, when when my company gave engineers Sun workstations,
>> along with usenet, email, and ftp,. Usenet was pretty well deveoped by then, I read 
>> groups in almost every category. Usenet was useful as well and
>> entertainment, but email and ftp were invaluable. 
>> I thought that was the extent of the internet.Then in 1995 or so I was
>> listening to the radio "Hearts of Space" and in his slow
>> deep drawl, he said more info could be found on the "World Wide Web".
>> What the f*** was that?
>> Within 6 months we all had Netscape.Coincidentally, I tried to order a
>> book from B&N, it would be 5 weeks 
>> and only if their distributor carried it.Tried the WWW and discovered a
>> small bookstore name Amazon, book
>> was 30% cheaper and delivered to my door in 3 days. That was when I
>> began to think change was in the air,
>> and when AMZ bought Tool Crip, that confirmed it, 
>> 
>> Sears as always special to me, it always angered me that if I could see
>> what was coming, that their professionals
>> couldn't. Sears could easily have out Amazoned Amazon,or even bought and
>> renamed AMZ but they had the same 
>> management type as A&P and mnay others.
>> 
>> Was your company in Brevard at the time?
> 
> No, I was at a company in Champaign, which is how I got connected to
> the internet so early. Arguably my greatest contribution was to
> register cd.com when those opened up, which ended up being one of the
> largest assets of the company when it was sold.
> 
> I went technical and started writing an e-commerce program which
> eventually got successful enough to be bought by Red Hat. All
> because I got connected to the internet at UIUC and went to see
> Andreesen demonstrate Mosaic. I used BBS systems, Gopher, and WAIS
> before I used www.
> 

As you know my wife went to UIUC. She did work-study at the supercomputing
center there,  during which she wrote the documentation for FTP.  

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