Anyway, after printing the tab out I tossed it in a 3-ring binder. We still thought that the Internet would end up taking us to the Singularity. We had no way of knowing there would be a Google. We had no way of knowing that Google would end up buying most of the USENET archives.
Amazing, right? When I think of all the things I printed out at school just because I wasn’t sure if I’d ever find them again. I printed the whole thing out, for free, because back then my school let VAX users print whatever they wanted for free. Twenty-five years ago, I happened to find the complete tablature for Dire Straits’ “Sultans Of Swing” during a late-night session browsing USENET on the university VAX.