Subj : Re: computers
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 08:35:00

-=> Spectre wrote to Malvinas <=-

 Ma> What I meant by 'the internet started in 1995' is that the common public
 Ma> adoption of *www as a means of communication and service consumption took
 Ma> off around 1995 and not 1993. The technology and infrastructure

 Sp> Yeah nah, you're too late in your estimated time of arrival... well
 Sp> before 95 we had plenty of websites and user pages kicking around.

1993 for me, getting a 56k leased line for my business. $6K a year!

In 1992, O'Reilly published the Whole Earth Internet Catalog.

Long before that, we were running/participating in listservs, Usenet,
FTP and Gopher - or telnetting into services that ran in a shell
session.


 
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