[Novalug] Reminiscing about times I was too young to remember!

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Mon Oct 7 20:30:17 EDT 2013


ha!  that reminded me of some old crap.  i used to be quite vocal in
rec.skydiving.  i got fed up with it at some point when people with 1
or 2 jumps started giving advice, sometimes pretty stupid advice.

http://goo.gl/F1qHeg

we certainly were trusting back then.  everyone used their names outright.
you couldn't automatically send email around the world.  you had to pick
a route and we trusted them to not only to deliver it to the next route,
but to not read it.

ahh... here i am in 1988-ish: mark@vti.com. ha!  some issues with de-dup
as i'm listed several times.  135 jumps back then.

http://goo.gl/osgvXW

actually, kinda cool.  i see some addresses that i recognize that went
on to make a lot of jumps.

i'll have to bore some people at work with some skydiving stories after
taking that walk down memory lane.

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 01:01:20PM -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> necessity is the mother of invention.
> 
> com!virtech!gjp
> 
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:41 PM,  <ethan@757.org> wrote:
> >>  Back in those halcyon days, I was a Telenet subscriber.
> >
> > I used to run a BBS in Norfolk Virginia and I remember seeing a call come
> > in (late in the BBS game) at 2400 baud or something. I watched and noticed
> > that the actions were laggy. I broke into chat and chatted with the
> > caller, and sure enough he was coming through a telenet or tymnet outdial.
> >
> > It was pretty impressive, at that point in time that was something of old
> > school.
> >
> > I remember guessing around at addresses on Telenet but don't ever recall
> > using outdials or dialouts or whatever the slang was for a modem connected
> > to the system.
> >
> > I remember you could randomly log into bank mainframes with default OS/390
> > passwords though.
> >
> >                         - Ethan
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