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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28078)	1/28/2003 5:36:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>> But reality is catching up to my cyberspace ideas so fast that I'm in danger of being over run. << In 1980, or thereabouts, a few friends of mine liked to play around with things called TRS-80s. Looked boring. Sometime later I heard of something called BBS's, but the people involved in them were like ham radio people and it just did not appeal to me. Started law school in 1983 and had unlimited access to Westlaw. Dial-up. Can't remember the baud rate but it was something like 2.4. The secretary at the office used dedicated word processing machines that had tiny green screens. Some people had PCs. Well, one guy did. He was a law student but he was also a geek. It might have been an Apple. I think geeks were really into Apples. I wasn't a geek, I was a research junkie. I was the research editor for our law review and spent hours and hours on Westlaw. That's how I became the Research Queen. I hated typing papers and had heard of word processing software so went somewhere (Kinko's) to pay for an hour's computer time ($9, I think). I turned on the computer but there were no GUIs then, just a blue screen, no directions, so I got my $9 back. The law review had a PC so I learned on that. I talked my boss into buying a fax machine so he could work out of his home office across the lake and send things back and forth between home office and office office. Nobody had ever heard of them before. Couldn't afford to buy my own computer until 1990. And then came online medical research via Compuserve, connecting directly with the National Library of Medicine. What was that funky language that they used? Unix? If you made a typo you couldn't backspace to correct it. And then AOL. I think maybe the World Wide Wait was up then (was it 1993?) but I didn't even know what a URL was, and all I could do was look at my horoscope and whatever other dumb stuff they made easy for dummies. And now look at me. Carpal tunnel and all. ;^)