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a live release followed in early 1958...
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Yes I was a geek. t only took 3 chips and a led readout from Radio Shack, and about a mile of wire. I realized that things were a-changing.
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My college library pluged into the future in 1980 with the online OCLC catalog for cataloging books. We had a leased direct line to some mainframe back east, and a dumb terminal that, in retrospect, looked awefully like the original IBM PC. Being a true geek, I got to learn the system first and teach the librarians. Fun!
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2 K of ram, I didn't even have a cassette recorder at first, can't count how many times I rekeyed the basic script for "lunar lander!)
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even got a printer!
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I even had an email by this time!
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A book on TCP/IP begins flying off the shelf at the book store I worked at. A $50 dollar book - selling by the case. Most unusual. I was still in the dos age - I had a bbs with technical books for sale - but you had to dial in by modem. Boy, things were going to change!
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I pitched the book How the Internet Works to Ziff Davis. They liked it.
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You know it has to be everywhere now!
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on a regular basis. Then YouTube, and blip, and flash, and...
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Since me and Al Gore invented the Internet, figured I'd use my computer experiences to try it out!