[broadcastdude]

Many years before 1994, amateur (ham) radio operators, myself included, were “chatting” with people all around the world in actual real time without using phone lines or satellites.

[MarkL]

Many years before 1994, amateur (ham) radio operators, myself included, were “chatting” with people all around the world in actual real time without using phone lines or satellites.

A buddy of mine was a HAM, and as I recall, he was using a VIC-20 and PET to do packet switched communications over short wave back in the early or mid 80s.

Mark