posted by [identity profile] ysabel.livejournal.com at 04:23pm on 2003-04-01
...but I'm not a net.fossil!!!

Yes, yes you are. *smile* I remember having conversations with you back in the Paleolithic...
 
posted by [identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com at 10:18pm on 2003-04-01
If you two are fossils, I must be the already decayed soil on which you walk.
 
posted by [identity profile] ysabel.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 2003-04-02
Oh? I've been active on some form of the Net since '87. You?
 
posted by [identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com at 09:14am on 2003-04-02
1980.
 
posted by [identity profile] ysabel.livejournal.com at 06:10pm on 2003-04-02
Woot! You win. Was that before the Big Split?
 
posted by [identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com at 08:18pm on 2003-04-02
You mean the ARPAnet/MILnet split? Yes. It was even before the days of domains and TCP/IP.

Heck, I was a Host Liaison during the great NCP to TCP/IP changeover!
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 08:44am on 2003-04-02
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.)

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