Subj : Re: computers
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 10:52:18

On 18 Jul 2024 at 01:46p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni> Oh?  I thought the internet actually started in the late 60s as DARPANet
 Ni> with the US military..

See my earlier message for a synopsis history, starting
with ARPANET (not DARPANet) and moving into the period of
commercialization starting in the 1990s.

 Ni> And I'd heard by the late 80s and early 90s,
 Ni> people were using things like Gopher, Newsgroups, etc. on the internet,
 Ni> before the web became popular..?

Gopher was never a particularly popular service.  USENET
actually started life on UUCP over dialup, and migrated
to the Internet in the late 80s; by the early 90s, most
UUCP services were gone.

The biggest applications hosted on the Internet before the
web were TELNET, FTP, and SMTP-based network mail.  Other
concurrently accessible networks tended to have peering
points with the Internet; for instance BITNET and UUCP.

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