I remember getting my first email address in 1992; my first semester of college. It was the one issued to me by the university; and that also happened to be my first exposure to unix! Ah, nostalgia!
My first e-mail address was also from a university account, sometime in 1995, IIRC. By then the University of West Florida was _already_ using Linux for SLIP/PPP and shell accounts.
They were probably using Slackware because JOE is still my preferred editor, and JOE was the default $EDITOR on Slackware.
The class was a distance-learning class in Special Relativity. Class discussion occurred in a local Usenet newsgroup using TIN over a dial-up shell account as the default reader. I still use Usenet (many comp.* groups are still active and constructive) and TIN is still my preferred reader, though for a few years I was using Forte Agent.
