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Hey, we had agriculture, so it was neolithic at the earliest, and I'd dispute even that! (Actually, the way I think of it, there never was a "stone age of the Internet", because we'd already moved out of "the stone age of 'the net'" before the Internet became the Internet.)

I didn't have to go out and hunt/gather my flamage; I could harvest a crop delivered to me in the form of Usenet groups, and I could sow seeds of flamage and know that a fresh crop would grow, so we had agriculture. Furthermore, I was using C news, with 'rn' and 'vnews' -- nice metal tools -- and I think it was just after the Line Eater was slain, so I don't think it counts as stone age. Pbbbbt!!!

(Okay, I was in a primitive corner, but I knew the trade routes (paths to gateways) that would take my goods to the Arpanet, CSnet, and BITnet.)

Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten the "2000 years of experience with icons" line from that.

Ah yes, I was explaining the Old Days on the phone last night, remembering when I was ..!seismo!dolqci!hqhomes!glenn and the time when "smart mailers" appeared ... madbodger and I were talking about a mutual friend who was at the University of Virginia and figured we'd take a guess at a likely sitename/username for her and CC her on the conversation. A week later we started getting the "no such user" bounces from Universidadt van Ansterdam. Whoops.

Hmm. Interesting to ponder which historical periods/events correlate to which net.history events. Was the Great Renaming our Renaissance? Was the creation of the alt.* hierarchy like Martin Luther forming Protestantism? Archie, Veronica, and then the WWW being stages of the Industrial Revolution? What about DNS? I wonder whether I can stir folks up on alt.folklore.computing with this silliness...