K McAleavey
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join:2003-11-12
Voorheesville, NY
| Modern day shell accounts
When I had my first chance to connect up to the internet in the early 90's away from my government job (I'm one of those fossil drivers that remember mil and arpa and used those in the course of my "appointed duties") it was a DELIGHT to connect into a dialup "shell account" on a VAX machine and be able to hunt usenet from home.
I knew what I wanted and where to go on my own, thank you - I had no need for "home pages" or "portals" and it was nice. When DSL finally "came to town" about a year ago, Verizon wanted to sell me MSN (gag reflex suppressed) ... I wouldn't have gone for it at ALL if I was given no choice but to become a happy Redmondroid ... fortunately, Verizon DID design their distribution package so that I could avoid Aiyee, and the Cult of Redmond and pipe directly into the net.
Don't need a discount, don't mind paying full price so long as I don't have to connect through a "branded" service. I'm as happy as a pig in ... ummm ... 
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