GEnie, Compuserve, Prodigy, America Online -- 80's kids will remember the pre-pseudo-internet era.
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Yep- and then I figured out how to dial into the local University's modem pool, switch the connection to SLIP mode, fire up Trumpet Winsock, and get the REAL Internet.
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Local BBS and FidoNet are where I got my start. Then these came along. I used AOL the most.
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I miss the days where everything was a terminal+mainframe. I was enthralled with my middle/high school's student records system (with automatic class scheduling and balancing!) They called it BigC, and was written 100% in house. In 2006 it was replaced with some corporate system.
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Fortunately, UCLA's systems are still terminal based, but with a "lambda architecture" involving more modern databases and reporting systems, so some of it is a web app.
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