Reply 20 of 50, by Jo22
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wrote:Internet was probably the big force behind computerised systems though,
We didn't get our first PC till 95 which was late but not unheard of. Early 90's computer training would have had to be a thing vs these days where your expected to know how to use a PC. Why spend money on a expensive PC AND training? anyone can use a
typewriter? got to print it out to fax to someone else anyway?
That's interesting how things were different in other places.
To me, the 90s was about Online Services, FAX machines, IPX/SPX LANs over BNC/RG58 cables,
BBSes, Pagers (Scall, Skyper) but not the internet as we know it.
BTX, Datex-P (X.25), CompuServe, AOL, etc.., just to name a few databases/online services.
The "InterNET", as in world wide web (www), is something that I rather associate to the mid-late 90s.
Back then, I imagined the underlaying structure of it to be made of larger and smaller individual and independand networks,
-based on different protocols each-, which all where "inter-connected" though some gateways somehow..
When I saw the original TRON movie, I never thought of TCP/IP or Unix, even.
To me, this was a reference to the X.25 networks of the past.
(Also the word "monitor program".. - An old term for a tiny operating system.
It reminded me of the original meaning of CP/M; Control Program/Monitor)
E-Mail, on the other hand, was popular quite soon, IMHO.
It was also possible to send them accross other networks, I recall.
wrote:I guess I was lucky to have a 286 in 1992 at home, which sparked everything! God bless that Storm Mistral 80286!!!
Yay! 😁
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