Subj : Re: computers
To   : TheNerd
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sat May 03 2025 23:22:00

-=> TheNerd wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Ni> I started using the internet in 1995 with Windows 3.1 and Winsock.  I
 Ni> don't think it was a PITA..  It actually seemed fairly easy to set up.
 Ni> You'd just configure Winsock for your ISP and dial in, and you were
 Ni> online.  I did that for a while until in 1996, I got my first job and
 Ni> spent my first couple paychecks on parts for a new PC, which I installed
 Ni> Windows 95 on.

 Th> OH gawd I hated Winsock.  Early in my career I had to support that for
 Th> an ISP.. thankfully not for long before it filtered out of the system.
 Th> Nothing but pain with a 'user' on the other end of the phone.

I used Trumpet for Win95. I remember how Microsoft came out with
Internet Explorer and Netscape sued cause they were incorporating
it with the OS in Win98, I think it was. I remember telling people
"the TCP/IP stack made trumpet obsolete, but no one is complaing
about that!" :-)    

Didn't make any friends that way... ;-)



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