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2026-05-10 22:11 UTC
@TheJen@beige.party 57 here, and same. I've been using personal computers since the first TRS-80 showed up at our local Radio Shack store, got my own Atari 800 with a whopping 10K of ROM and 48K of RAM and a cassette drive in 1981.
I've been on the Internet (and using UNIX) since 1986, when I went to Carnegie-Mellon, about a decade before the public even knew it existed, and by the time they did in the mid-90s, I had founded what so far as I am aware was the first 100% broadband end-user ISP in the US.
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-05-10 22:15
@TheJen@beige.party I personally am, me, the actual person who built the networks that connected millions of schoolchildren to the Internet for the first time in the mid-late 1990s, all over New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. I personally designed and built the networks and the systems. If you were in New Jersey, Eastern PA, or northern DE K-12 schools in the mid-90s to mid-2000s, there's a good possibility I built your school system's networks with my own brain, back, and two hands.