:Free Software Magazine: The Leap from Virtual Host to Virtual Machine
Free Software Magazine: The Leap from Virtual Host to Virtual Machine Jul 10, 2005, 13 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (7813 reads) (Other stories by Edward Macnaghten)
"Back in the good old days, when men were men, women were women and the standard way for two computers to talk to each other was through a cable plugged into the serial port, was when I first took the plunge into this 'internet' thingy and signed up with an ISP. Then, armed with a modem, a telephone line that doubled as a fax, Netscape 1.1 and a sense of adventure, I surfed web sites, emailed the few others I knew who had also taken the plunge and joined in on worldwide discussions on what we called 'News Groups.' I felt at the time I was at the sharp end of technology, that I had arrived at the next millennium early (this was still the nineties) and I had boldly gone into this brave new world of global communications where few had gone before. In a way, I had, when you consider what others around me in the UK were doing at that time..."
