A Mysterious Network called Internet

In 1993 I still did all of my university work on a “Coleco Adam”. I still remember using Scotch Tape to cover over the record inhibit holes in audio tapes so I could save my reports. I think I must have bought Van Halen’s 1984 3 times because I kept having to use it to save my work. This machine rocked. I’d had it for almost 10 years at this point, an unheard of amount of time today. It was loaded with a Zilog Z80 4MHz processor and 64K of Ram. The thing that was soo cool was that it would save tones of text right on the machine, so you only had to get the tape when you were writing a huge report. It had a 32K ROM.

Coleco Adam

A year later I would get my first X86 machine. A NEC laptop. A 4X86 DX 100 with a colour display. What a change. But it would take me three more years to get online. “Life, the Universe and Everything” else got in the way. Even in that decision I made some bad choices, to put that in perspective, I’ll tell you that my first email was JagEsquire@Aol.com.

To understand how far things have come take a look at this CBC report from October 3 1993.