11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
8:38 p.m.
On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Hey all, was Delphi accessible as a bulletin board
before 1990?
I'm only finding logos and info about Delphi post-1990.
But for early 1980s, what as Delphi? Was it a telnet-sort-of-thing only
accessed only from universities?
I've searched through early BYTE and PC Mag and just not finding any
advertisements about it.
They started in 1981, and expanded in 1983.
They apparently still exist.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/delphihistory/messages/10/1
Competing with AOL, Prodigy, Netcom, etc.
In those days, the internet was not open to the public (guvmint, academia,
military, etc.), so, to some extent those "services" were trying to
compete with the internet.
Also, in your historical research, if you have not already done so, you
and your daughter have got to watch "Hyperland".
It was a 50 minute long BBC documentary in 1991? (PRE WWW) about the
future of the internet. It was written by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson,
and starring Tom Baker.
https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland
If you want subtitles/captions, 6 years ago, I created an .SRT (captions
file of it!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive…
(400MB video with subtitles burned in)
.SRT file:
http://www.xenosoft.com/HyperlandCAPS_En_US_0_77.srt
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