Subj : Re: computers
To   : tenser
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 22:43:58

  Re: Re: computers
  By: tenser to Malvinas on Sat Jul 20 2024 06:23:00

 > Commercial ISPs existed well before 1993.  Look up UUNET, for
 > instance.

Yeah, I'm not sure how this is even a debate. Demon Internet in the UK started in 1992. It had "Internet" in its name because that was a known thing even then. Demon was basically started to provide *affordable* Internet access, so they definitely weren't the first to market.

 > Perhaps in your personal experience you started hearing about it
 > in 1995, but that doesn't mean that's when it started.

Even I was on the Internet in 1995, and I wasn't even the first from my circle of friends.

BobW
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