Computer Communications
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Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning.
Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at
the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind.
Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it o ....
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.... mail addresses
started popping up on business cards. Those otherwise-incomprehensible computer
magazines that my dad brought home from work ran monthly stories on
communications-program this, and Internet-system that. Cleveland Freenet's
Freeport software began appearing on systems all over the world, in places as
far away as Finland and Germany - with free telnet access!
I didn't live life as a normal twelve-year-old kid that summer. I sat in front
of the monitor twenty-four hours a day, ....
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