You know you're an Internet veteran if...

Submitted by Zorin on Mon, 2005-05-02 17:32.

You know you're an internet oldbie/veteran if:

...you remember when "High speed dialup" actually was
...you had a Netcom FTP account
...you've used Trumpet Winsock
...you thought Pointcast was kind of neat
...you've ever read netnews on a VT100 terminal
.....and you enjoyed it since it was so much faster than the dialups
...you remember when TCP/IP had to be installed as an option under Windows '95
...you had one of the first ICQ accounts and thought it was silly and would "never catch on"
...you mourned the day AOL users were let loose on the then-virgin Internet
...you've used a SLIP connection
.....and you thought it was the best thing in the universe. A real IP address, holy crap!
...you remember when ISPs supplied a UNIX shell as standard with all accounts
...you remember when ISPs ONLY supplied a UNIX shell with the basic account; SLIP/PPP was extra!
...you tried to run a MUD under such an account and were yelled at by your ISP's sysadmin
...you made extensive use of SLiRP or TIA at one point
.....and it was banned at your ISP/school so you renamed it "pine" or "emacs"
...you remember when you could post your E-mail address everywhere and receive no spam

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