Nostalgic Look at a Pre-Internet Campus Network in 1990

This piece reminisces about the author's university experience in Wales around 1990, focusing on the pre-internet era's campus network. The author details the use of a VAX minicomputer cluster as the primary communication hub, describing email, a rudimentary Twitter-like system via process display customization, a real-time chat system (DEC$PHONE), and a forum-like conferencing system (POWCON). These systems, while primitive, formed a tight-knit campus "un-network", showcasing unique social and information exchange methods. The author contrasts this experience with today's internet, expressing nostalgia for the simpler, close-knit campus life of the past.