The Null Device blog:

As of today, I've been on the Internet (after a fashion) for 10 years. 10 years ago, on the 25th of March, 1992, I got my first account on yoyo, a student-run shared UNIX machine at Monash. Back then it was (a) the only game in town (Windows-based PC mail clients and POP accounts didn't exist, and nor did the Web, so everyone thus inclined telnetted to this shared UNIX box and used pine/nn/nethack/whatever), and (b) a DECstation 2100 with 8Mb of RAM (i.e., roughly equivalent to a Sony PlayStation 1 in CPU architecture/performance), and as such (c) slow as hell, especially at peak times. Ten years later, after a succession of accounts on institutional and friends' machines, I arrived here.

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Posted by: Peter
http://www.fourplay.com.au/blog
Tue Mar 26 00:09:17 2002

Hm, interestingly you've reminded me that therefore I too have been on the Internet for roughly 10 years. I can't remember exactly when I got my account on hydra.maths.unsw.edu.au - that machine doesn't even exist any more I think! Ah, the nostalgia of it all...

Posted by: acb
http://dev.null.org
Tue Mar 26 04:09:18 2002

yoyo exists, but it's now a huge DEC^WCompaq Alpha of some sort, running Digital UNIX or Tru64 UNIX or whatever it's called these days. (I remember when it changed over to an Alpha for the first time in 1994 or 95.)

Funnily enough, my yoyo account still exists too, along with some .files last updated 10 years and one day ago.

Posted by: Toby
http://www.adbusters.org/
Tue Mar 26 08:06:43 2002

PlayStation 1 > DECstation 2100. PS1 has later generation MIPS CPU, approx twice clock, but I expect the sum of architectural differences to imply much greater than 2x performance ratio. (I own a '2100 or two, but no PlayStations.)

References: http://www.pburg.k12.nj.us/pms/gt/video3/pstech.html http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/OCF/machines/DECstation2100.html

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