026245890040004 :-) Altger. Still remember it by heart. The brain is a strange machine.

and I recognized QSD immediately when I saw it in your post.

Oh, I remember QSD and Lutzifer! I was on there probably '90 to '91-ish?

Same time frame for me. I'd heard of the Internet (by way of "The Cuckoo's Egg" and coverage of the Morris worm) but being out in the boondocks with no college close by there wasn't any chance of getting Internet access at that time. The X.25 networks, and just the idea of always-on networked computers, were breathtaking to me.

Oh, I loved that book! Maybe I'll re-read it...

I found my way into some x.25-to-internet gateways in the early 90's. Most corporate networks were very insecure then. Some of those gateways had no authentication: you'd connect in over x25, then telnet out. The local colleges were also pretty bad.