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On 2 February 2015 08:18:37 GMT+00:00, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Martijn Grooten wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:28:15PM +0000, bad apple wrote: >>> On 01/02/15 20:07, Brad Rogers wrote: >>>> when the >>>> internet was a) much smaller and b) a far more genteel place than >it is >>>> now. >>> >>> Good times. Sadly missed :[ >> >> Blame Microsoft for getting hundreds of millions of people online. > >More likely Compuserve, AOL and a few others. Microsoft initially >ignored >the Internet, then tried to do their own, then tried their extend, >embrace, extinguish tactic... They almost won that one. > Not so sure. Our kids wanted to get online originally for MS Messenger and I don't suppose they were the only ones. Kevin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq