@evistre Usenet on my high school's "mini-supercomputer" that had been donated by the manufacturer. First internet experience was posting on comp.unix.<something> asking for help with some technical issue or another.
@evistre Later my best friend and I getting a "Unix shell access dial-up account with internet access" at a small local company, and convincing the owner/operator to install a SLIP daemon so we could try out "dial up internet". (Trumpet Winsock for me, native Linux 0.9 TCP/IP for my friend.)
I'm pretty sure we were the first people in Portland to get a "home internet connection" that wasn't provided by an employer.
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@evistre Later my best friend and I getting a "Unix shell access dial-up account with internet access" at a small local company, and convincing the owner/operator to install a SLIP daemon so we could try out "dial up internet". (Trumpet Winsock for me, native Linux 0.9 TCP/IP for my friend.)
I'm pretty sure we were the first people in Portland to get a "home internet connection" that wasn't provided by an employer.