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Originally Posted by Notjohn
And it's not only the internet. I happened across a book on Amazon this morning whose Product Details contained this line: Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,537,048 in Books
Wow. That is impressive, given that I started in September or October that year (my grad student daughter had dial-up access to the university computer, and I hijacked her account) and there was virtually nothing out there! CERN. The University of Manchester library catalog (when I was a student at Manchester, the catalog was a series of printed volumes with handwritten addenda), and I think the Library of Congress, though that may have come later. There was email, of course. I loved email, though my first few had to be virtual tweets since I could only write in the subject line. I had to email one of my daughter's classmates, and she sent the query on to a friend at University College Cork, who kindly explained what I was doing wrong, or rather wasn't doing. The email utility was PINE, which I was told meant Pine Is Not Elm. Even then, computer boffins delighted in being obscure.
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I know that this is OT, but--I don't remember the precise year; I think it was in the very early 90's--what I do remember vividly is that we were SO excited to find out that an ISP was coming to Phoenix. Primenet was the very first one. We leapt for it, and our customer number was 11. :-) They obviously expected many more customers, because, as memory serves, the number was written out like this: 000011. :-)
Hitch