Longest Time in Contract with no Web access

**Xerxes** · 9 January 2006, 16:23

Years, but then again I am an older geezer and unlike some of you young 'uns can remember a time when no one had heard of the web.

**PerlOfWisdom** · 9 January 2006, 16:49

2 months on a dumb as400 terminal.

**AlfredJPruffock** · 9 January 2006, 17:04

Originally posted by Xerxes

Years, but then again I am an older geezer and unlike some of you young 'uns can remember a time when no one had heard of the web.

You mean NewsNet and Listserve on the old 3270 green screen ?

Then along came somehting called http and mosiac, I told them it would never catch on ...

**MrsGoof** · 9 January 2006, 21:00

ahh yes those were the days, wheN I had 3 terminals on my desk, so I could access 3 seperate systems.

When one died I got a new on which had AMBER text

**MrsGoof** · 9 January 2006, 22:07

mmmmmm dots

I've also remembered the hum/buz noise they made when they were powerd on

and if it was cold in the winter you just put one on the floor and hey a fan heater

dem wer da days

**xoggoth** · 9 January 2006, 22:23

Just started at place where they don't allow any, even lunchtimes. tulipe!!! Backward bluddy places.

Longest Time in Contract with no Web access