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Yes, but email wasn't universal. Today I can be sitting here in Budapest and do bussiness with people halfway across the globe, all per email. I couldn't do tha
by Maro 16y ago
Yes, but email wasn't universal. Today I can be sitting here in Budapest and do bussiness with people halfway across the globe, all per email. I couldn't do that in 1975.
Of course I wouldn't need to. I'd just buy Microsoft stock and live off that in my penthouse suite. Well, that is until Marty McFly shows up... =)
- CWuestefeld 16y agoAnd even when it was available, the bandwidth was small enough that you were a little limited in what you could transfer, and how quickly it could get there. I remember circa 1989 when my school (RPI) got onto NYSERNET, at what I believe was a 56kbps link. How much correspondence can be shoved through a pipe that size? Around that same timeframe, outside of academia, us hobbyists that wanted more widespread communication were relying on things like FidoNet[1]. That would package up a BBS's messages and ship them out on a nightly basis -- to a limited number of nodes (I think), so it could take quite a while for messages to propagate to the entire network. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
- zandorg 16y agoActually, I had email on dialup in 1997, and you could download a modest amount of single user's email, and refresh newsgroups, in about 4 minutes flat.