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So, wandering back to the old internet, back in 1982, when IPv4 was less than a year old. Armed with a Hayes Smartmodem, blistering along at 300 baud, I entered ATDT and some phone number I've long forgotten. Connected to a local internet concentrator, where the password was "@ D C A". Not sure why that stuck with me, probably because my buddy and I surmised that pattern was to use the nearest airport code (this was near D.C.).
There were no websites, no gopher sites, just some ftp and telnet sites. If you were good, you could beg or charm your way into getting a free account on someone's host. Just had to talk like a grad student or a contractor, and the odds were pretty good.
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