On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:47:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/9/2017 1:59 PM, wrote:

How long ago are we talking about?
HTML did not come into common usage until the early 90s and by then
W/3.1 was around (93).
I was running W/3.1 pretty early because the BB manager of Prodigy
required it. That was the only way to keep my "minutes" down online.
Prodigy embraced 3.1 pretty much from it's release tho, although I ran
the DOS version as long as I could.
I only loaded windows when I absolutely needed it. IBM had a multi
tasker that run under DOS, also allowing 4 VM sessions on the IBM
network and that was my normal desktop application at work.
If you walked up to my PC you would see 4 VM sessions, the DOS box
would have dBase running and I might be using the DOS call function
there to do minor housekeeping.


It was in the 1994-95 time frame. You reminded me ... I also used
Prodigy.

Around that time, I was using VM script, which was similar to HTML to
the naked eye but the tags were a little different. The transition was
not that hard tho. All of that is too cumbersome to write from scratch
unless you are just writing a few lines so I use an editor but once I
get the boiler plate down I use note pad to alter things as often as
not.