Joseph: And your point is?
Yes, I used telnet straight up until we got Prodigy. The internet wasn’t worth much in those days (mostly just used to share dinosaur “pictures” between universities) but we did use it. It may not have been a hot item in those days (nor was it user-friendly) but now that it is the big ticket, the old-timers can lay claim to “been there done that”. And I still have my first email address – though I could be pursuaded to sell it on eBay.