20 Jul
2008
20 Jul
'08
12:07 p.m.
Tony Mori wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
And what was the first operating system to have builtin support for
internet access? Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that just LAN
networking? OS/2 Warp had dial up internet access for IBM's ISP as well as
a SLIP dialer for other ISPs, when released in 1994, but not a full TCP/IP
stack until Warp Connect in 1995. I assume Unix, Linux, AppleOS or AmigaOS
must have had this prior to that? I remember all those damn AOL floppy
disks for all the windows users. FORMAT A: was a good use for them.
Mark
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Sean Conner wrote:
Heh - Prodigy, the Source, CompuServe, BRS After Dark, there were a TON
of them...
I remember starting out on CompuServe in 1982 or so - 76576,2064 - I
guess I will NEVER forget it!
300 baud on a Tandy CoCo2 (which I STILL have...).
As I recall, I *LEFT* AOL in about 1993/1994 - my original username was
PowerTrip :)
AOL, as I recall, also rolled-in the PC-Link system that Radio
Shack/Tandy included with all their PC's.
REAL old-timers will remember that there was even an AOL client for the
Apple ][GS!
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.
Compuserve started in 1969!
When internet access started becoming popular, like AOHell, it even tried
to compete with the internet for a while, with forums, etc.
Now it is owned by AOL?
Remember when Netcom, etc. put their own wrappers around internet
content?
Remember Prodigy?