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Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time
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The computers I remember in my libraries back in the early 90s didn't use internet, but a private dial-in network with a text/menu-driven interface sort of like a BBS.
Eventually, when they moved to the internet, there was a bit when it was reachable over telnet...I don't know if that was intended or not but it made it very easy for me to search the catalog from home. It was never advertised, I just happened to notice the address on the terminals at the library and figured I'd give it a shot.