On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Nathan Brindle wrote:

>At 02:29 PM 2/9/2004 -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>Man, has it *really* been 2 decades already??? :)
>
>Scary...isn't it?  :)  I can just see some of us sitting at the bar,
>telling tall tales of the Wild Wild Internet days.  <cowboy>"Waal, back in
>'86, this feller named Thomas wrote this here software program..."</cowboy>  :)

Back when BITnet and L-Soft were cozy buddies and messages were
constrained to be no more than 80 characters per "record" long and
the web was only something a spider could construct.