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in 2003, Adam Kalsey started a project he called <a href=\"https:\/\/kalsey.com\/2003\/05\/newly_digital\/\">Newly Digital<\/a> &#8212; a collection of stories about when people first discovered computers, got online, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, I updated and reposted <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/04\/back-in-the-day\/\">my &#8220;Back in the Day&#8221; post<\/a> from roughly a year before, to contribute to the project.<\/p>\n<p>And now, after looking back at <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/01\/newly-digital-back-in-the-day-redux\/\">my &#8220;Newly Digital&#8221; post<\/a> while once again updating the tail end of it with my current computers, I noticed more and more links succumbing to link rot, so I figured I&#8217;d give it another refresh. So here we go!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I was born in 1973 &#8212; certainly before home computers were a thing, but at a point where computers were starting to make their way into the school system.<\/p>\n<p>The first computers I can remember playing with were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple2history.org\/museum-a-l\/computers\/\">Apple II<\/a>s that my elementary school had. Before long our friends the Burns had one of their own that I got to play with, while my babysitter picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldcomputers.net\/c64.html\">Commodore 64<\/a> that gave me my first look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BASIC\">BASIC<\/a> programming language.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, my family got our first computer &#8212; an <a href=\"https:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/osborne-1.html\">Osborne 1<\/a>. This was a beast of a machine. 64k of RAM, a Z-80 CPU, two 5.25&#8243; floppy drives, and a 5&#8243; monochrome 80&#215;40 greenscreen, all packed into a case the size of a suitcase that weighed about 30 pounds. The keyboard could be snapped up against the face of the computer, allowing it to be carried around &#8212; one of the first, if not the very first, &#8220;portable&#8221; computers! It ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/2\/31154\/software\/cpm-the-story-of-the-os-that-almost-succeeded-over-windows\">CP\/M<\/a> (a precursor to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-DOS\">MS-DOS<\/a>) &#8212; aside from fiddling with the machines at school or at my friends&#8217; houses, my first real command-line experience! There was a 300 baud modem available for the Osborne 1 computer, however my family didn&#8217;t get one until years later (when those of our friends who had also had Osborne 1 computers were giving them to us as they upgraded, allowing me to cannibalize parts from two machines to keep one running).<\/p>\n<p>I first got online sometime in 1990, with the first computer I bought myself &#8212; an Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_classic\/specs\/mac_classic.html\">Macintosh Classic<\/a> with no hard drive (the computer booted <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.fandom.com\/wiki\/System_6\">System 6.0.7<\/a> off one 3.5&#8243; floppy, and I kept <a href=\"https:\/\/winworldpc.com\/product\/microsoft-word\/40-mac\">MS Word 4<\/a> on a second floppy, along with all the papers I typed that year), 1 Mb of RAM &#8212; and a 2400 baud modem. Suddenly an entire new world opened up to me. After a brief but nearly disasterous flirtation with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AOL#1991\u20132006:_Internet_age,_Time_Warner_merger\">America Online<\/a> at a time when the only way to dial in to AOL from Anchorage, Alaska was to call long distance, I discovered the more affordable world of local BBS&#8217;s (Bulletin Board Systems).<\/p>\n<p>I spent many hours over the next few years exploring the BBS&#8217;s around Anchorage, from Ak Mac (where most of my time was devoted) to Forest Through the Trees, Roaring Lion, and many others that I can&#8217;t remember the names of at the moment. I found some of my first online friends, many of whom I conversed with for months without ever meeting &#8212; and many that I never did meet. Most of the Mac-based boards used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermesbbs.com\/about\/\">Hermes<\/a> BBS software, which shared its look and feel with whatever the most popular PC-based software was, so virtually all the boards acted the same, allowing me to quickly move from one to the other. After springing the $300 for an external 100Mb hard drive (how would I <em>ever<\/em> fill up all that space?!?) I downloaded my first &#8216;warez&#8217; (bootlegged software), at least one of which had a trojan horse that wiped out about half my hard drive. I discovered the joys &#8212; and occasional horrors &#8212; of free pornography. I found amazing amounts of shareware and freeware, some useful, some useless. It was all amazing, fun, and so much more than I&#8217;d found before. In short &#8212; I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>After I graduated from high school in 1991, I had a short-lived stint attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaa.alaska.edu\">University of Alaska, Anchorage<\/a>. One of the perks of being a student was an e-mail account on the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/V\/VAX.html\">VAX<\/a> computer system. In order to access your e-mail, you could either use one of the computers in the university&#8217;s computer lab, or you could dial into their system via modem. Logging in either way gave you access to your shell account, at which point you could use the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pine_%28email_client%29\">pine<\/a> e-mail program. However, I soon learned that the university&#8217;s computer was linked to other computers via the still-growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/I\/Internet.html\">Internet<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And here I&#8217;d thought BBS&#8217;s were a new world &#8212; this Internet thing was even better! Suddenly I was diving into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Transfer_Protocol\">ftp<\/a> prompts and pulling files to my computer from computers across the globe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/U\/Usenet.html\">Usenet<\/a> readers introduced me to BBS-style discussions with people chiming in from all over the world, instead of just all over town. I could jump into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/I\/IRC.html\">Internet Relay Chat (IRC)<\/a> and have real-time conversations with people in other countries. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catb.org\/jargon\/html\/G\/gopher.html\">gopher<\/a> protocol was essentially a precursor to the World Wide Web: text pages linked to each other by subject. I was fascinated &#8212; more information than I had dreamed of was at my fingertips.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I left UAA and lost my student account, the &#8216;net had started to show up on the radar of public consciousness, but still at a very low level &#8212; it was still fairly limited to the &#8216;geek set.&#8217; That was enough, however, to have convinced some of the local BBS systems to set up primitive (but state of the art at the time) internet links: once a day, generally at some early hour, they would dial into a special node on the &#8216;net and download a certain set of information, which the BBS users could then access locally. It was slow, time-delayed, and somewhat kludgy, but it worked, and it allowed us to have working e-mail addresses. It wasn&#8217;t what I&#8217;d had while at the university, but it was certainly better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few years, though, the &#8216;net suddenly exploded across public consciousness with the advent and popularization of the World Wide Web. Suddenly, you didn&#8217;t have to do everything on the &#8216;net through a command line &#8212; first using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsa.illinois.edu\/research\/project-highlights\/ncsa-mosaic\/\">NCSA Mosaic<\/a>, and later that upstart <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Netscape_Navigator\">Netscape Navigator<\/a>, you could point and click your way through all that information &#8212; and some of the pages even had graphics on them! It was simplistic by today&#8217;s standards, but at the time it was revolutionary, and I joined in that revolution sometime in 1995 with <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/19960227\/woody.html\">my first homepage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, there&#8217;s been no turning back. Over the years, my computers have been upgraded from that little Mac Classic to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_performa\/specs\/mac_performa_600.html\">Performa 600\/IIvx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/powermac\/specs\/powermac_6100_60.html\">Power Mac 6100<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/powermac\/specs\/powermac_6500_225.html\">Power Mac 6500<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An original Bondi Blue <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/imac\/specs\/imac_ab.html\">Revision A iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A blue and white <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/powermac_g3\/specs\/powermac_g3_400_bl.html\">Power Mac G3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A short lived experiment with a custom-built PC (the only Windows-based PC I&#8217;ve ever owned)<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/powermac_g5\/specs\/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html\">Dual 2.0Ghz PowerMac G5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A first-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/imac\/specs\/imac-core-2-duo-3.33-27-inch-aluminum-late-2009-specs.html\">27&#8243; iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/imac\/specs\/imac-core-i7-4.0-27-inch-aluminum-retina-5k-late-2014-specs.html\">27&#8243; Retina 5K iMac<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/macbook_pro\/specs\/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.5-13-mid-2012-unibody-usb3-specs.html\">13&#8243; MacBook Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And I currently use both an <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_mini\/specs\/mac-mini-m1-8-core-2020-specs.html\">M1 Mac mini<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/macbook-air\/specs\/macbook-air-m2-8-core-cpu-10-core-gpu-13-2022-specs.html\">M2 MacBook Air<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, of course, this blog has been running for more than 20 years. It started as <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/19960227\/announce.html\">simple hand-coded update posts<\/a> on my early personal pages in 1996. In late 2000 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2000\/11\/25\/newspro-up-and-running\/\">I found a script called NewsPro<\/a> that was essentially a very early content management system (CMS), and then just over a year later <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/21\/new-blog-software-movabletype\/\">I moved to MovableType<\/a>, which was only about three months old at the time. MovableType started strong but eventually pivoted to focus on the enterprise space rather than home users, and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/11\/16\/back-already\/\">in 2006 I moved over to WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress has lasted by far the longest, though I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/02\/27\/website-not-blogging-ennui\/\">getting less enamored with it<\/a> for a while. But realistically, after this long, I&#8217;m unlikely to put the effort into finding something else &#8212; and as far as I know, the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/30\/blogging-cms-wishlist\/\">blogging CMS I really want<\/a> hasn&#8217;t yet been written.<\/p>\n<p>Some years my blog gets more posts than others &#8212; the rise of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter certainly pulled me away for a while &#8212; but I&#8217;ve never let it fade away completely, and I certainly don&#8217;t intend to let it die. I may not always be rambling away here a lot (though the demise of Twitter has certainly spurred me to be more active here once more), but I&#8217;m unlikely to ever entirely disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: Apple II, Commodore 64, BASIC, Osborne 1, a Mac Classic, Hermes and BBSs, a VAX and the Internet, pine, ftp, Usenet, IRC, and gopher, the WWW, blogging, and many more Mac computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2038],"tags":[118,58,113,812,4265,4266,1457],"class_list":["post-26516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-internet","tag-macintosh","tag-movabletype","tag-newly-digital","tag-osborne-1","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}