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My first months in cyberspace (Phil Gyford’s website)

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In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work making models for Aardman Animations, and would soon be the only one of my friends not to have permanent work. I was increasingly interested in technology and this brand new thing: Internet. The previous year I’d discovered Wired magazine, then only available at a handful of shops imported from the US. On the rare occasions the mainstream media mentioned the internet it was explained as something like, “an international network of computers”, and Wired was a revelation to me, bringing together lots of things I was interested in. There are other people who get this! By the time I could get online I felt I was late. For Christmas I’d received some money that I could put towards buying a modem. Several months earlier I’d bought an Apple Macintosh LC – 10MB of RAM, 40 MB of storage – from my fr

2025-10-15 15:06 Permalink In early 1995 I was 23 and living in a terraced house in Bristol with four friends, about 18 months after leaving university. I’d given up on trying to be an illustrator, had a bit of freelance work making models for Aardman Animations, and would soon be the only one of my friends not to have permanent work. I was increasingly interested in technology and this brand new thing: Internet. The previous year I’d discovered Wired magazine , then only available at a handful of shops imported from the US. On the rare occasions the mainstream media mentioned the

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