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Tin Man said:
The Internet was made possible by the invention of two Americans, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. Their intention was to improve data conveyance over ARPANET, a Defense Department network connecting universities engaged in research considered of strategic interest. TCP/IP was so effective that it allowed the development of the commercial network we know as the Internet.

Brits will claim that one of their scientists created the Internet. Bah humbug. Without these two Americans, there would be no Internet.

While enrolled at UT in the early 70s, I played BOOG on the ARPANET, a submarine warfare game requiring players to calculate three axis navigation and firing solutions, entering these in green characters on a gray screen. One had to anticipate the actions of one’s opponent in determining the inputs. Early geek video gaming, it was a training exercise. I imagined my opponents were midshipmen, though it was very likely that they were engineering students like me.
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I got into it at UT as well....by my day we played LPMUDS over telnet, like multiplayer Zork..all txt based but technically the first MORPG's. the game Everquest started as a graphical LPMUD project for example. I remember coming back to Hess after a night of drinking and seeing these nerds on a Sat night in the computer room on the 1st floor. I recognized a friend in there, and was like wtf are you doing working on papers at 3am??? And he then proceeded to school me about telnet and the LPMud scene....a week later I was hooked, and it ended up with me calling into ORNL to use their access from my dorm room. (at the time you could use your UT login on ORNL's modem.....provided you knew the number. That resulted in a war games like moment when My computer froze like in a movie and text appeared across my screen that I was not authorized on ORNL computers, and that i was logged, and should not use that number again to play games. :D I freaked the hell out, Waiting for black SUVs to storm Hess Hall. Good times. When it comes to the history of the internet UT goes WAY back. Don't call ornl's data lines though...they frown upon that.
 
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Sgt_Nick_Fury said:
I got into it at UT as well....by my day we played LPMUDS over telnet, like multiplayer Zork..all txt based but technically the first MORPG's. the game Everquest started as a graphical LPMUD project for example. I remember coming back to Hess after a night of drinking and seeing these nerds on a Sat night in the computer room on the 1st floor. I recognized a friend in there, and was like wtf are you doing working on papers at 3am??? And he then proceeded to school me about telnet and the LPMud scene....a week later I was hooked, and it ended up with me calling into ORNL to use their access from my dorm room. (at the time you could use your UT login on ORNL's modem.....provided you knew the number. That resulted in a war games like moment when My computer froze like in a movie and text appeared across my screen that I was not authorized on ORNL computers, and that i was logged, and should not use that number again to play games. :D I freaked the hell out, Waiting for black SUVs to storm Hess Hall. Good times. When it comes to the history of the internet UT goes WAY back. Don't call ornl's data lines though...they frown upon that.
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Pretty much just perused everything around “Hess Hall” in your post. Hess. The zoo. 👍🏼
 
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WestTennesseeFox said:
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@joevol33 is listed as 4'6" on that doctor's chart, so he'd mos def qualify....only thing that concerns me is that the folks at microwrestling might have a different definition of "intense family fun" than the definition liljoe has

oh lorty
 
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