Hallo Kees!   
      
    KvE> I did some work on a microvax   
      
   That sounds interesting.  I am not sure what the mainframe was other than it   
   was manufactured by DEC and there were a number of dumb terminals wired into   
   it.  The one I used faced a bank of 9 track tape drives so that I had easy   
   access to them.  ftp and rlogin were the main networking apps I used on   
   VAX/VMS.  Same with on Solaris later on except I think by that time telnet   
   replaced rlogin.   
      
    KvE> I dir read Fortran and once did a conversion to the very rich   
    KvE> Basic that HP had on it's Desk calculators.   
      
   I never ran across Basic until later on when I bought my first PC, a 20MHz 386   
   with a 20M hard drive and a 2400 baud isa modem.  I used to connect to the   
   mainframe from home using that setup.  Also could connect to two different   
   Sparc stations as well over the phoneline from home.  It was around that time   
   I encountered my first BBS.   
      
    KvE> one I remeber was gopher   
      
   I never used gopher but was aware of it back then.  ftp and telnet were my   
   mainstays even on X-Windows.  Despite the gui interface I was still using the   
   commandline and have been ever since up to and including today.  My terminal   
   is a framebuffer linux terminal and I haven't bothered with xorg although I   
   have used it off and on in the past.  So far six tty's are all I have ever   
   needed and probably only use four of them at any given moment, such as right   
   now as we speak.   
      
    KvE> Only for the fact that I was young.   
      
   There are days I will agree with the above.   
      
    KvE> It must have been Mosaic by Marc Andreessen   
      
   That sounds very familiar.  I think you nailed it except I never heard of Marc   
   Andreessen.  Mind you I never really used html all that much back then.  I   
   still don't other than text browsers like lynx and links, mostly links.  I   
   used to use lynx back in the 1990's and still keep it to do html -> text   
   conversions every now and then which is getting less and less these days.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
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