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Hello Jay Harris!

** On Saturday 13.11.21 - 09:52, Jay Harris wrote to Erich Bublitz:

 JH> first was www.nintendo.com.  Back then they had a
 JH> "Nintendo Chat" thing right on their front page.

 JH> It wasn't anything fancy, it just added to a running text
 JH> file displayed on the page.  But I remember everyone was
 JH> asking where everyone else was from and most of the people
 JH> were from North America, but there were a few from Europe
 JH> and Australia on there too.  That was one of the first
 JH> times I felt the excitement of the internet & how it could
 JH> connect us all.

For me.. the first sense that anything connected people, was  
echomail.  Back then, even accessing the internet required  
dialup.  So, connecting to a BBS .vs. an ISP to browse or  
gopher made no difference.  The "internet" itself wasn't  
amazing to me.

Compuserve was another a-ha place for me; getting connected  
with people who had info to share or just enjoyed a good  
conversation.
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