Re: 2011/11/24 - 20th Anniversary of Internet in South Africa
Zane Wilson <zane-3Hz/[email protected]>
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On 19/11/2011 22:54, Graham Leggett wrote: > On 19 Nov 2011, at 9:58 PM, Henry Watermeyer wrote: > >> Our undergraduates learned well and a group of them went off to start >> Internet Solutions. Far sighted indeed. > > In the early nineties Wits undergraduates were not allowed access to > the internet at all, and nothing motivates like the forbidden. I still remember the time in 1992 I was called into Henry's office to be chastised for accessing a Usenet newsgroup and sending email to a fellow undergrad at UCT via the "witsvma.wits.ac.za" IBM mainframe that we had access to. And while the computer science department was a lot more forgiving there was also a time in 1993 that a bunch of us had a remark "put in our permanent file" for using the Trumpet news reader in the CSIII computer lab (which as I recall was cabled with thin coax). And in 1994, when internet access was finally allowed (perk of being a post grad) the only way to get online from home (until Andras kindly gave me a free account on apollo.is.co.za including SLIP dialup access) was via the mainframe terminal emulator dialup then telnet into concave.wits.ac.za Those were the days! Zane. _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz