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Geoff
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Welcome to CompuServe back in the dark ages.
...and that wasn't the internet as we know it since CompuServe was an island and you couldn't get to any other networks from theirs. You called the phone number for a local modem server. Their primitive private data network got you from the local modem server to their minicomputers in Columbus, Ohio. In 1981, those would have been DecSystem 10 small mainframes and Dec VAX minicomputers. Back then, every large corporation had their own private data network that used similar technology.
...and that wasn't the internet as we know it since CompuServe was an island and you couldn't get to any other networks from theirs. You called the phone number for a local modem server. Their primitive private data network got you from the local modem server to their minicomputers in Columbus, Ohio. In 1981, those would have been DecSystem 10 small mainframes and Dec VAX minicomputers. Back then, every large corporation had their own private data network that used similar technology.
gmcunni
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ha, i was talking to a buddy just the other day about the old compuserve days. i ran a program called "tapcis" to scrape all the forums i liked to a text file so i could view them off line to save $$. you used to pay my the minute for access
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SkiDork
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I was a BBS Dork...
ctenidae
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"We're not in it to make money."
Wow, how times have changed.
Wow, how times have changed.
MRGisevil
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The internet is for porn, Wa :-[
andyzee
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My free trial period on Compuserve cost me $80 the first week I used it. That was cause it cost to get into premium sections.
I ran a BBS when I first got into computers. I built a few computers and then connect them together on a Novell network. Threw 6 HD on the server and didn't have anything to do with it, so I started a BBS. Oasis was the name.
I ran a BBS when I first got into computers. I built a few computers and then connect them together on a Novell network. Threw 6 HD on the server and didn't have anything to do with it, so I started a BBS. Oasis was the name.
Paul
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That is so cool..I didn't have internet until 1993..and as a former paperboy I'm glad I had my route before the internet caught on..
loafer89
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My brother did online banking from my parent house in the mid 1980's with a free modem from Citi-Bank with a speed of 1,000bps which is comically slow today.
I had an IBM with online access through MSN in 1995
I had an IBM with online access through MSN in 1995
Geoff
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I had a brief stint at BB&N Labs in Cambridge at "Staff Scientist" in 1988. Near as I can tell, they invented "wasting days on the internet". People would come in at 9:00, coffee klatch for an hour, do email and Usenet group stuff until noon, take a 2 hour lunch in the cafeteria where they'd have spirited intellectual converations, and then do another 3 hours of coffee klatch, email, and Usenet until they went home at 5:00. All their hours were billed to some government contract or other at $150.00/hour and nobody cared if they actually did anything as long as they filled out their time card every week saying they worked 40 hours on the project. I turned in my resignation after 30 days.
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