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   Hello Jay Harris!   
      
   ** On Saturday 13.11.21 - 09:52, Jay Harris wrote to Erich Bublitz:   
      
    JH> first was www.nintendo.com.  Back then they had a   
    JH> "Nintendo Chat" thing right on their front page.   
      
    JH> It wasn't anything fancy, it just added to a running text   
    JH> file displayed on the page.  But I remember everyone was   
    JH> asking where everyone else was from and most of the people   
    JH> were from North America, but there were a few from Europe   
    JH> and Australia on there too.  That was one of the first   
    JH> times I felt the excitement of the internet & how it could   
    JH> connect us all.   
      
   For me.. the first sense that anything connected people, was     
   echomail.  Back then, even accessing the internet required     
   dialup.  So, connecting to a BBS .vs. an ISP to browse or     
   gopher made no difference.  The "internet" itself wasn't     
   amazing to me.   
      
   Compuserve was another a-ha place for me; getting connected     
   with people who had info to share or just enjoyed a good     
   conversation.   
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