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Youngsters: Dial-up era internet wasn't just slower, it was full of esoteric protocols one needed to learn how to navigate.

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I wish I could still access some sites on LYNX.

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Clearing out my old files a few years ago, I found this instruction sheet for accessing New Orleans Public Library online in 1994. I scanned it before adding the paper to recycling.

#NewOrleans #Internet #1990s

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TIN and TRN on a dos box 8088 clone I'd mostly been using as a word processor then a friend gifted me a used dial-up modem.

@blogdiva 34 years later this year, I think. I poked around briefly on some BBSs and a text-based online multi-player game, but then when I discovered Usenet I got hooked.