Internet 1878
From: Chuck Darling
Jan 6, 2024
Yes, the Internet is an outgrowth
of the Telephone System.
Back in the 1970's, when I called
my friends in Buffalo, NY
from our rural cottage in Arcade, NY,
the telephone still had no DIAL !
You picked up the phone, waited for
the operator:
"City...please..."
"Number ... please..."
and the call would connect.
My Amstrad had a 2400 baud modem,
for calling BBS services. There was no
WWW to connect to...
- Download Adventure from a BBS type page,
- like I did, back in 1992...
- (I had a Commodore64 version that I bought around 1983, but no PC version...)
***
I worked at Computer City when
Windows 95 was announced over
Satellite TV...
on the eve of the launch,
the Tonawanda NY superstore stayed
open from Midnight til 3am, selling
Windows95 to 200 in-store customers.
In 1998, I bought a refurbished HP tower.
It had a 56 k modem for
Internet connection. It ran 32bit Win95
and could access the web through dialup.
Several years later, working at Radio Shack
I bought my first Sprint Cell Phone.
It had Text-Internet access, so I wrote
a small adventure on my PC, and uploaded it to my AOL account.
The Kyocera phone could not load HTML,
so I had to re-write it in WML.
(Wireless Markup Language)
I ran up an $80 dollar phone bill,
because Sprint charged a connection fee
for each Internet page load ...
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