how old are you in internet years without telling your age? there was no internet but we had a modem w/an acoustic coupler and i could message my auntie
tnvt220.exe
The number of dorms that had been wired for ethernet was a HUGE selling point on my college tours.
Connecting to the Orient Express BBS from my Apple II C using my Novation D-CAT Modem.
My first Internet connection came via the serial port on the back of a ROLM dataphone. (Or was it parallel? It probably wasn't fast enough to need to be parallel.) Dial-up access via 28.8k modem filled in for that when I was at home for the summer.
i built my first computer from a kit & mom's parakeet would mimic the dial up modem sound
I'd say that we had to use lowercase Ls and zeroes, but someone will inevitably reply "You had zeroes???"
I remember reading the announcement in UK's Electronics Weekly that someone had developed a combined Modulator/Demodulator which was going to be called a Mo-Dem.