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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
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Sean Conner wrote:
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?
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!