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> So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero? Yes, it rose to prominence in the bbs era that preceded the big public success of the WWW.
by woodandsteel 9y ago
> So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero?
Yes, it rose to prominence in the bbs era that preceded the big public success of the WWW.
- Nursie 9y agoInternet, not web. Sure, it rose to prominence before the likes of google, but not really in the first era of the internet. While it may well have preceded the 'big public success' of the world wide web, the internet had arguably already had a few different eras before then anyway. And equally based on open protocols like gopher and nntp.