[81alum]

Yes, the Dec system 20 was in CERAS next door to UGLY. 

I represent one of the first known examples of a marriage formed from an online relationship, and it happened at LOTS.  I met my wife when I logged on at LOTS and my FINGER program identified a friend logging on to a terminal across campus at Terman.  I knew my friend was in Kansas, so he could not possibly be the person at the Terman end.  So I sent a nasty message (early text messaging!) to the poacher.  Instead, I learned that this was my friend's ex-girlfriend who had been given permission to use his account that summer.  After chatting via text for weeks, we agreed to meet in person and "one thing led to another", including a thirty three year marriage as of Saturday.

Phil Zimbardo wrote an article about the LOTS culture that was published in Psychology Today, and I was one of the featured "hackers" as we were known.  (This was before "hacking" had come to mean breaking into a computer system.)  Funny thing is that I was not a computer science guy at all, and wound up doing something very fuzzy indeed.

It is remarkable to me to reflect on how PCs, the internet, etc. have so radically changed our world.  We felt we were on the cutting edge as we huddled at LOTS into the wee hours of the morning playing text-based games and writing papers on homemade word-processing programs.

[81alum]

Yes, the Dec system 20 was in CERAS next door to UGLY. 

I represent one of the first known examples of a marriage formed from an online relationship, and it happened at LOTS.  I met my wife when I logged on at LOTS and my FINGER program identified a friend logging on to a terminal across campus at Terman.  I knew my friend was in Kansas, so he could not possibly be the person at the Terman end.  So I sent a nasty message (early text messaging!) to the poacher.  Instead, I learned that this was my friend's ex-girlfriend who had been given permission to use his account that summer.  After chatting via text for weeks, we agreed to meet in person and "one thing led to another", including a thirty three year marriage as of Saturday.

Phil Zimbardo wrote an article about the LOTS culture that was published in Psychology Today, and I was one of the featured "hackers" as we were known.  (This was before "hacking" had come to mean breaking into a computer system.)  Funny thing is that I was not a computer science guy at all, and wound up doing something very fuzzy indeed.

It is remarkable to me to reflect on how PCs, the internet, etc. have so radically changed our world.  We felt we were on the cutting edge as we huddled at LOTS into the wee hours of the morning playing text-based games and writing papers on homemade word-processing programs.