That's an interesting take on the early internet. I was ~2 years old when you started using the internet - to put it into perspective. Even most hardcore geeks that are bloggers today didn't get started until 1994. Thanks for sharing.
I remember getting on the old internet (Arpanet) a couple of times back in the mid 80's via a VAX system at Adelaide Institute of Technology, it was mainly bulletin boards with geeks discussing geeky things.
First time on the internet was in about 92 via a pay per use computer at a pub in Sydney. I became online in 94 or 95 with a slick (at the time) 166MMX system and set up the first online florist with my wife in Sydney Australia in 96 which did rather well.
This was pre-Google and most of the web traffic came through a steep learning curve on how the Yahoo (Inktomi?) search engine operated.
Unfortunately I lost all my e-mails from pre 2003 which were in outlook during the XP upgrade. However for a while I using Pegasus so yes, I have a journal of what I was up to then.
You're right, blogging is the new USENET and in some cases the new "mailing list". I've only started blogging in the past few months and have found it more refreshingly open and creative than their two previous methods of communicating.
Thanks for the opportunity to re-collect and share some history.
1991 came the last months of my university studies in an average siced student city in Germany. PC Rooms were allowing access to PC, that room superviced by a kind of PC Guru.International Communication were done via fax (one in our department) or through other pre e-mail technics.
At the nd of 91 I came to Tartu, the time during the collapse of the soviet economy system. Toivo Maimets guided me through Eesti Biokeskus (Center of Biology studies), one scientist there explained me how it works to have discussions with his colleges abroad via e-mail. Honestly I didnīt understand. It was the first time I slowly began to realise that Germany is not longer the head of technical development.
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