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An early social un-network
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So anyway, a not-so-prestigious institution, but with some decent courses and lecturers, out in the valleys of South Wales in the UK; at that time still quite a deprived area in the aftermath of the destruction/collapse of the local coal mining industry. Although this was well into the microcomputer era, our primary compute resource was a small cluster of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Vax minicomputers running VMS(now known as OpenVMS ¹). Most of it’s in-jokes about lecturers, science fiction books, nerdy pop culture generally, and our location in the rainy Welsh hillside, but I can still feel a spot of cameraderie through the juvenile humour.
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