Gary McKinnon

There was a,

I basically had to run NASA software.

I had to double-click on the desktop because my hacking method, although I'd get in there with a blank password, which was CLI, come online.

Once I was in there, I was using remotely anywhere.

I think it still exists.

It's like PC anywhere.

It's like you're sitting at the desktop.

You can see the screen on your screen.

And so I double-clicked this, but it was very, very slow.

I was on a 56K dial-up.

which was to give some idea of the speed it was if you download an mp3 music file now you've got it in a few seconds then it was five minutes per megabyte and a song might be three megabytes and 15 minutes for one song no one would even accept that now

So I double clicked this.

It was taking ages.

So I canceled it.

I turned down my remote graphical remote control thing into like eight bit color, then four bit color.

Eventually I think, yeah, I think four bit color or two bit color.

It was basically four or five different colors.

So it was a shitty image.

and um but it came on the screen like you know almost like well i think a few lines at times it's coming in blocks and i'm looking and there's like blackness then there's like slowly a hemisphere started appearing i'm thinking that's a planet what the hell this could be what she said then the hemisphere comes into view and it's very blocky but it's kind of blue white so i'm thinking it must be earth and then suddenly there's a big straight kind of silvery line

And then it's coming down, then that's, I guess what they now call a tic-tac, but it's what we used to call cigar shaped object.