Subj : Re: computers
To   : Malvinas
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jul 18 2024 13:46:50

  Re: Re: computers
  By: Malvinas to Nightfox on Thu Jul 18 2024 03:23 pm

 Ni>> (...)  I didn't even know about the
 Ni>> internet in 1993, and I'm not entirely sure how many people did.


 Ma> IIRC, 'the internet', as such actually started out in 1995, replacing
 Ma> Compuserve.
 Ma> I wouldn't know as I got my PC connected with a modem around 1997, when
 Ma> the inernet already was a thing but there wasn't much to do there either,
 Ma> there was a lot more activity in BBS systems.

Oh?  I thought the internet actually started in the late 60s as DARPANet with the US military..  And I'd heard by the late 80s and early 90s, people were using things like Gopher, Newsgroups, etc. on the internet, before the web became popular..?

Nightfox
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