Mortar M. wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
shops that were starting to pop up in the area. It would be another
year before I owned a computer; a T/S 1000. I would love to
re-experience that wonder, that excitment of something totally new.
One of the guys in the BBS documentary mentioned something about knowing something that only a few people knew about, I remember dropping a
reference to computers in a conversation in the early 80s and seeing one person's eyes light up - you knew you had something in common with them.
Same with the early internet in the mid '90s. I worked in Multimedia Gulch
in San Francisco, a center of creative design and technology in the
early 'net days. Travel a few blocks north to the financial district and
they had no idea what you were doing.
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