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Addiction & Recovery

Arne

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2. I was hooked with a 300 baud dial up bulletin board connection.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Sun May 12, 2024, 10:58 AM

May 2024

Then Compuserve comes out and by the time Altavista started it was total
addiction.
Stayed away from AOL not sure why, something sleazy about the marketing.

My job included an acoustic telephone modem dialed into a GE mainframe
in Mass. doing flow rate calculations.

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Are You An Internet Addict? [View all] Stuart G May 2024 OP

Yes, I am. I get very little done other than the basics of living because I spend too much time on Internet progree May 2024 #1

I was hooked with a 300 baud dial up bulletin board connection. Arne May 2024 #2

The internet's a mine field for infovores (but the mines are pinatas) usonian May 2024 #3