How hard could it be to right that wrong?Įverything went smoothly at first. It was always just a dumb terminal on the ‘net, never a full-fledged member. (There’s nothing quite like erotic literature at 2400 bps when you’re 13 years old.) What it never did was run a TCP/IP stack of its own. Yes, in a certain sense, my Mac has already been on the internet, first via BBSes and later via Lynx through a dial-up shell sessions. It introduced me to C, hard drives, modems, and the internet. Still, that Mac Plus was where I cut my computing teeth as a child. My current desktop PC is on the order of 200,000 times faster - not even including the GPU. The specs pale in comparison to even my Kindle: 8 MHz CPU, 4 MB RAM, 50 MB hard drive, and 512 x 384 512 x 342 pixel black-and-white screen. Spoiler alert: here it is surfing Wikipedia.
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