Heh, I also learned "vi" so I could post on newsgroups.
I actually taught myself how to type when I started doing "irc". It was getting pretty frustrating not being able to keep up on irc conversations, but in time, I just learned where all the keys were on the keyboard, and the rest of...
I was involved with mainly newsgroups and IRC in the early 1990's. And yes, I know what UUencoded files are.
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