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From: Markus E Leypold
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On 21 Apr 2007 14:42:32 -0700, "jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net"
> <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.ada:
>
>> 
>> The average person never learned programming. I do not know who you
>> are referring to when you refer to "the average person".
>>
> 	Aye... and the "geeks" had FTP, Gopher, and Archie in the mid-80s
> for downloads...

Complete nonsense. I think I qualified for a geek: But being young,
living in a village hand having not so well todo parents at that
moment, the only thing I could afford at the time was a C64 (expensive
enough) and later a 286 AT. Online connection was well out of question
(too expensive) and still rather well controlled when I went to
university (well, in the first years). So sorry ...

Regards -- Markus