Way back when I got my first computer, in the olden days of 1988, it was mainly a game machine.  The Internet was mostly a military and university project back then, and a modem was an expensive add-on piece of hardware.  There were some BBSs around, but all were on long-distance numbers at the time, which put them out of my budget. On the output end, I didn’t get a printer for a few years, so I wasn’t producing documents or computer art either.  Every computer was an island, for the most part.

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