"The Internet is full! Go away!"
R.I.P. Erik Naggum
One of my first encounters with the Internet in the mid 90s was an article in some consumer IT magazine, where Erik Naggum greeted the newcomers sporting this t-shirt.
Other names to mention from Usenet was the bold keyboard jockeys Inge Lindland, Jarle Aase, Jarle Synnevåg , Peter Svaar undsoweiter....
That said, my first ever theoretical encounter with this behemoth was in 1991 and an article the anarchist paper Gateavisa - which was much more open to curious newbies. In their guide to the Internet - the fun started at the newsgoups and the alt.* hierarchy!
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