[Dead Corpse]

And get your history straight. The Web wasn't opened up for public use until after CERN's announcement on April 30, 1993. Before that, it was all BBS and some limited email.

So... as I said...

Also, if you read Smith's books, the Telecom is pretty damn close to what we are getting out of the Internet today. Especially with the iPhone filling in the nitch of a pocket "terminal".

AS I ORIGINALLY STATED.

But then you had to go off on a tangent about personal computers or whatever else you were frothing over.

[Swordmaker]

&tAnd get your history straight. The Web wasn't opened up for public use until after CERN's announcement on April 30, 1993. Before that, it was all BBS and some limited email.

Sorry. You are wrong. I have read all of L. Neil Smith's books. You keep attributing ignorance to me with no evidence. I will grant L. Neil Smith's Telecom... but it was not 15 years before the internet or similar services. It was pretty much contemporaneous. And it was certainly not 15 years before the public knew about personal computers as you asserted.