@geos @Janeishly

My first connection was using a terminal emulator on my PET computer and a 300 baud modem to dial into my university's mainframe. No "world wide web", just remote menu-driven access to files on several connected computers. I later ran a BBS system on a PET with a 1200 baud modem (blistering speed!)

Well, it turns out that it doesn't matter that my BlueSCSI is due to arrive today, because I went and installed the CIRTECH SCSI card in my IIgs and it let out the magic smoke.

I put it into Slot 7, made sure it was seated, then switched on the computer. There was a weird crackle, a puff of sweet-smelling smoke escaped from the card, and the computer shut down.

Sitting at my desk, trying to get work done, knowing that my BlueSCSIv2 is supposed to be delivered today ...

@HopelessDemigod

It was terrific. While my wife was in college and grad school getting her BSW and MSW, I typed all her papers including her theses on it using emacs and LaTeX (with BibTeX for the references and footnotes) and printed them on our 24-pin Epson dot-matrix printer which could do graphics and fonts at 180DPI. Her professors were really impressed at how lovely the Computer Modern fonts looked and the overall appearance vs the typewriter appearance form the other students.

My daughters also used that combination for their high school papers. When the older one went to college, she was forced to take a class in using computers in which they taught Word and Excel. She caused a bit of a stir when she demanded to know where Emacs and LaTeX were instead of that "garbage" Word.

@HopelessDemigod

I was a leaf node on the UUCP USENET for Net News & email using my AT&T 3B1 (I loved that thing). Called a willing node 4 times a day to receive and send my compressed NNTP & email bundles. Started at 1200 baud but eventually got up to 56K. Also used SLIP to dial into the Merit Network for internet access (mostly FTP sites)

@truls46 In the GDR I could listen to #BASICODE broadcasts - but my humble Z1013 did not support it, so I was a bit jealous of KC 85/x owner, who were able to record the sounds and load the programs into their machines.
Although, since the broadcasts were introduced with a short description of the software, I knew I did not miss much ;)