Yes, we're still in the Nothing New Under the Sun arc started in Nothing New Under the Sun (Buying Computer Time, part 1)..., continued in Nothing New Under the Sun (Buying Computer Time, part 2)... and prompted by an article, Amazon puts network power online, in Nature that talks about Amazon.com making its computing resources available for a fee.
"What are you doing this weekend?" John asked, and thus began my many years of fun weekends and summer weeks at Lincoln Labs TX2 facilities.
I doubt if anybody in high school or later in college knew I was playing on DARPAnet (that's what the internet was called in the early days), emailing researchers at Carnegie-Mellon, RPI, Brown, MIT, Berkeley, Los Alamos, Stanford, UCLA, ... . And let's not get into the overseas people I was corresponding with (NextStage will never get another government contract if I do, I'll betcha).
This later led to John and I going on a roadtrip for one glorious summer in which we stopped in at Penn State College Park (I think it's University Park now) so I could learn viola da gamba (that one I didn't keep up with. Sorry, Erin), played at Carnegie-Mellon's now famous robotics labs, climbed what the U of Pitt students called "The Tower of Learning" and CM students called "The Heights of Ignorance"... it remains as one of my most cherished memories.
But I digress...
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