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To: roadcat

I was born in ‘68.

Not sure how long printers have been around and was there ANY kind of public internet access before the mid 90s?

NO IDEA what BAUD is. Sorry :)


35 posted on 10/30/2019 2:02:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

1 baud equals 1 bit per second. Early form of measurement for transmission speed calculations.


36 posted on 10/30/2019 2:04:41 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Freedom, if you can keep it)
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To: dp0622

WWW was invented, I believe, in 1994.

Prior to that there was usenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) and also Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) which were forums with no graphics.

Email began in the early 1970s but didn’t takeoff until later.

Windows 95 (released in 1995) was the first really popular operating system built around Graphical User Interface. Before that it was all just text on a screen, but people still did a lot with networks.


38 posted on 10/30/2019 2:09:00 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: dp0622
Not sure how long printers have been around and was there ANY kind of public internet access before the mid 90s?

Sorry, I assumed you were around for the last century like many posters! I was on the Internet back in the early 1970s, using mini's in large facilities. Got on early PCs after the mid-1970s, and used early trial software to access the Internet via 300 BAUD modems. Think in terms of a character for each byte, and BAUD in terms of bits, commonly 8 bits per byte, so 300 BAUD is 300 bits per second (rough explanation). Took forever to download, painfully painting each character slowly from left to right.

I used CompuServe a lot to access forums and bulletin boards, in the late 1970s through the 1980s. That was one service, and quite popular. Friends of mine were admins. So yeah, lots of public internet long before the 1990s.

When the WWW came along I got criticized but trainers of computer education courses for disabling the graphics (I was used to quickly scanning the text content), because the teachers said a lot of work went into the graphics and they paid money to developers to fund the WWW. Well, I still block lots of pop-ups to this day!

43 posted on 10/30/2019 4:57:57 PM PDT by roadcat
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