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On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Kevin Peat wrote:
On 2 February 2015 08:18:37 GMT+00:00, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Martijn Grooten wrote:On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:28:15PM +0000, bad apple wrote:On 01/02/15 20:07, Brad Rogers wrote:when the internet was a) much smaller and b) a far more genteel place thanit isnow.Good times. Sadly missed :[Blame Microsoft for getting hundreds of millions of people online.More likely Compuserve, AOL and a few others. Microsoft initially ignored the Internet, then tried to do their own, then tried their extend, embrace, extinguish tactic... They almost won that one.Not so sure. Our kids wanted to get online originally for MS Messenger and I don't suppose they were the only ones.
MS Messenger is only 15 year old - c2000. AOL (as an internet service) predates that by almost 10 years although it was providing online dial-up services since 1983.
Compuserve started in the 80's too.General dial-up internet was avalable in the UK in the early 90's with Demon (as it was then) blazing the trail. I think AOL was initially a walled garden of sorts, but allowed email exchange with externals, but there you go.
I used Prestel (aka Micronet 800) in the 80's. Expen$ive it was ... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq