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Internet - 1981 Style

Posted: January 31st, 2009, 11:51 am
by Ed Dantes
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Posted: January 31st, 2009, 12:28 pm
by Fumblerooskies
That isn't very far off of what he had at UNCA about 12-15 years ago. We could connect to the internet via a modem, and all we had was text...no graphics. This was back when AOL was getting rolling and CompuServe and others were also on the scene.

Posted: January 31st, 2009, 5:15 pm
by ATrain
"Imagine a world where you turn on your computer to read the morning newspaper..."
And today, thats exactly what the majority of Americans do.

Posted: January 31st, 2009, 7:02 pm
by SumItUp
the red ROTARY dial phone......classic

Posted: January 31st, 2009, 7:05 pm
by PAmedic
ours was a lovely pea-green.

and we had to pay a monthly fee to Bell Tel to "maintain" it.