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by MurrayHill1980 3218 days ago
"Before the Internet existed?" You make that sound like such a long time ago!! Meanwhile I see there's another Ycombinator news item in which someone discovered the "HERE IS" key on Teletype ASR-33s (which I believe one pressed to automatically read the already-punched papertape with the code to identify your "Station".) Again from pre-Internet days when mighty dinosaurs still roamed the earth writing games on Teletypes on IMSAI-8080 computers and pirated copies of Microsoft 8K Basic.