Subj : Internet Availability
To   : Nightfox
From : Mortar
Date : Tue Nov 12 2024 00:04:08

  Re: Re: a question
  By: Nightfox to jimmylogan on Thu Nov 07 2024 12:04:13

 > Although the internet may have started to be publicly available by 1992,

It would probably be more accurate to say "publicly aware" as the Net was accessible years earlier.  For the most part, if the average person wanted access, you had to go to a college/university or high-end library as connections were rather expensive at the time.

 > hadn't heard of the internet at the time, and I'm sure very few people had
 > at the time, so I don't think the internet was really a thing for most
 > people at the time.

Quite true.  It wouldn't be until 1993, when Windows 3.11 was released, that most people would take their first steps into the online world, thanks to improvements to the Windows networking subsystem, making services like Compuserve, America Online and Prodigy viable.  But it was in 1995 that the Iternet really took off.  Online services now provided gateways to the Internet, as well as dedicated ISPs started to pop up, and thanks to DSL, you could use your current modem if you didn't have cable.  It was a wonderous time.

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