Subj : Re: computers
To   : tenser
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 18:51:00

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

the UUCP services disappeared but USENET hung on for a long time...

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

You also get stuff like Napster, and OpenNap, but they are a bit later, and
have WWW as support. ~95-98 somewhere... I'm only going by the house I was
living in at the time for a year reference...

Spec


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