{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"1776 wrote","author_name":"1776 (npub1e7…mfw7d)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1e7dj5ymf5nxezvnrnvf6uwfqp4crqschn2q5apjga8jngzfhamqsemfw7d","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"The first PC I ever got my hands on was a 386 that was sitting largely unused. It was at my ex in-laws’ when we were living in their garage suite during college. I found an MSDOS manual in the basement that I read cover to cover, and some documentation and driver disk on the 14.4 baud dialup modem that was on the mainboard. I bought a phone cord to plug it into a nearby jack. A friend gave me a list of local BBS numbers. It took me two weeks to figure out how to get it to work, but I will never forget the experience of knowing I was connected to another computer miles away. The first cool thing I got was a shareware copy of Wolf3D."}