20 Jul
2008
20 Jul
'08
10:19 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
On 20 Jul 2008 at 12:13, Sean Conner wrote:
Still have the # for NSI memorized: 703-742-4777
Sad, huh?
Depends upon the service. AOL with USENET and
email in 1993.
Compuserve probably a bit before that. Heck, still remember the
Trumpet IP stack for Windows.
I may still have the diskettes from my "internet Starter Kit" from
around then with NCSA Mosaic, Trumpet and (IIRC) Eudora. Web site
hosting back then was pretty rough if you had to go through a
commercial ISP to do it. Does anyone remember how much of a hassle
it was to transfer hosting on a domain? Fill out a form, mail or FAX
it (Network Solutions obviously didn't trust email), sometimes
furnishing a copy of ID in case you had an uncooperative ISP. And
because there weren't a lot of hosting services (and competition),
there could be some real a**holes to deal with.