Hello Maurice!   
      
   22 May 18 12:45, you wrote to me:   
      
    KvE>> If your remark is about Vi, then it does.   
      
    MK> Yes it was but after thinking about it I realized it could also apply to   
    MK> life.   
      
    The Dutch word for life is not as close to vi as the french word for life.   
      
    MK> Now I do but not back when I was teaching myself C and Unix.  Before that   
    MK> it was VAX/VMS which I had a 10-20 page typed document for.  I had to   
      
    I did some work on a microvax, for some time. It had the TGV toolkit   
    installed. I think the toolkit was of Australian origin.   
      
    MK> learn that the hard way as well but had a bit of advantage as I had a   
    MK> book   
    MK> for Fortran which helped quite a bit.  I wrote many utilities for   
    MK> retrieving and formatting data to and from nine track tape drives and then   
    MK> later on for external scsi exabyte drives for Sparc stations.   
      
    I dir read Fortran and once did a conversion to the very rich Basic that   
    HP had on it's Desk calculators. These machines were very usefull in   
    laboratory automation, The were carefully called desktop calculator to   
    bypass IT departments for implementations where IT had no knowledge at all.   
      
    KvE>> I usually search for examples on the web.   
      
    MK> There was no web back then.  In fact I recall when the www first started.   
    MK> The first web interface I encountered was lynx on a dumb terminal and the   
    MK> html output on it was all screwed up due to the default 80 character width   
    MK> of lynx on a terminal that couldn't display it properly.  I never   
    MK> understood the attraction of html until seeing the gui version on   
    MK> xwindows. I think it was mozilla but maybe an earlier form of it.  It   
    MK> might come to me later.   
      
    I saw my first web pages on a IBM terminal. The URL's were replaced by   
    numbers in the order, they were found on the visible page and selected by   
    typing the number. The were more URL type interfaces, one I remeber was   
   gopher    
    MK> I don't miss those days at all.   
      
    Only for the fact that I was young.   
      
    KvE>> I suppose that is age as well, short term memory goes first.   
      
    MK> Yes.  I can relate to that as well as some long term memory such as what   
    MK> mozilla may or may not have been called before mozilla.  :-/   
      
    It must have been Mosaic by Marc Andreessen   
      
   Kees   
      
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