-=> On 05-06-20 08:11, Paulie420 wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Ni> Around that time, the web site TUCOWS came around - It stood for The
 Ni> Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software. Now I believe they've changed the
 Ni> W to stnad for "Windows".

I remember Tucows in the early days. :)

 Ni> Nightfox

 Pa> LOL, I'm 40, and we had a very similair path to internet. I also used
 Pa> TOCOWS back then; and FTP... I remember using a UNIX prompt to get
 Pa> around at first, and went over to my girlfriends house where her father
 Pa> showed me Trumpter Winsock... in the last post I confused that for
 Pa> TCP/IP. Yup... the rest is history, huh!!

Youngster. :P  I'm 52 next week. ;)  My first Internet account was a Unix shell
account, which was quite handy in its time.  I switched to PPP, using a Linux
based router (in 1995-1996!), and avoided needing Trumpet Winsock.  I used
Windows for Workgroups, OS/2 or Windows NT, depending on what OS I had booted.
:)

 Pa> BTW, today TUCOWS is still around... they also created TING cell phone
 Pa> service, which is kind of a cool thing... its like cell service sold in
 Pa> small chunks; only pay for what you use, with an average bill of $35.
 Pa> My girlfriend uses it, but its not for me as I'm a data-heavy user.

I last used Tucows a couple of years ago, I think.

 Pa> I'm still angry @ myself for dropping out of computers a little bit
 Pa> after that time. Went to my career, and just picked linux back up a
 Pa> year ago... thats why I'm so stoked about BBSes being around again.
 Pa> Cheers, its neat remembering about 'back in the day'...

I kept the computer interest up - BBSs were one reason I kept interested after
I discovered coding wasn't going to be good for my mental health, a few years
prior.  BBSing would bring me back to computers (in the intervening years, it
was all ham radio, which I still do).


... The poor man.  He's completely unspoiled by failure.
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