General Discussion

I remember attending a few discussions at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, at the University of Illinois and briefly chatting with Marc Andreesen, later co-founder of Netscape, who was still an undergraduate.

It never occurred to me that the internet would become a big deal and that people would get rich developing it, or even that I might build a career on it. At the time I was much more interested in supporting my wife's academic career, and then we had children.

I had an ex-girlfriend who did get rich recognizing the internet's potential but that was a relationship made in hell and I probably wouldn't have survived the ride. I broke up with her by jumping out of her moving car.

The first web browser I used almost daily was Lynx, which was released in 1992. I was still using it frequently when I first signed onto DU since I was sill most comfortable on the so-called command line. For browsing DU itself I used Opera.

I'm not familiar with the DEC operating systems proper. Mostly I was fooling around with BSD, DRDOS, and Atari 8 bit stuff.

My wife and I met as science teachers in a big urban school district.