cdconnection.com

I was going through some old junk today and found this business card:

Ordering music online via modem and telnet? How old-school is that? I had ordered from them back in 1992 — purchased a few Pearl Jam import CDs. Ah the good old days of being a slacker college student. This takes me back to when I’d go to the computer lab, log into one of the VAX machines, caught up on my “Garden of Stone” digest (a Pearl Jam majordomo mailing list), read through some alt.music. USENET groups, and browsed through cdconnection’s catalog. I just thought it was one of the coolest things ever. While everyone else was fighting over the PCs and Macs to use Word or whatever, I could pretty much find an open VAX machine and just explore a “live” network. Little did I know I was just getting an early taste of what the internet was going to bring to the masses. Can we go back to those days? I miss it.