Subj : Re: Internet Availability
To   : Nightfox
From : calcmandan
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 15:45:25

On 12 Nov 2024, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni>   Re: Internet Availability
 Ni>   By: Mortar to Nightfox on Tue Nov 12 2024 12:04 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  Mo> Quite true.  It wouldn't be until 1993, when Windows 3.11 was release
 Ni>  Mo> that most people would take their first steps into the online world,
 Ni>  Mo> thanks to improvements to the Windows networking subsystem, making
 Ni>  Mo> services like Compuserve, America Online and Prodigy viable.  But it 
 Ni>  Mo> in 1995 that the Iternet really took off.  Online services now provid
 Ni>  Mo> gateways to the Internet, as well as dedicated ISPs started to pop up
 Ni>  Mo> thanks to DSL, you could use your current modem if you didn't have ca
 Ni>  Mo> It was a wonderous time.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'd heard of Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL long before 1993, as my dad
 Ni> had been using those (even from DOS).  I got my first computer in 1992,
 Ni> but I wasn't aware of the internet until late 1995.

My brother had prodigy and compuserv back in 1990 while attending university. compuserv was subscribed due to the available research material accessible at the time. and prodigy was subbed due to the graphics of the interface.

I just used local bbs's until joining the service and learned of them initially around 1986. A schoolmate had a modem on their 8086 and we would connect to play the games.

When I got out the service, there was a local free magazine that covered computers and the back index had a list of local bbs's and their themes. Oh, the days.

I was co-sysop for a board until the sysop decided to take it offline. 

And in the early 00s a local wildcat bbs provided internet, which I took advantage of since I was a poor, broke student. He really
really saved my butt.

In the late nineties, we'd have quarterly meetups in Sacramento called SAMUPT (Sacramento Area Modem Users Party Thingie). USually about a dozen sysops and assorted users would show up at a park for a picnic.

The days I miss greatly. I've learned to hate the www and have retracted into smolnet unless absolutely necessary.

Daniel

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