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Internet, not web. This was a time when nobody used those terms interchangeably.
by brlewis 8y ago
Internet, not web. This was a time when nobody used those terms interchangeably.
- nineteen999 8y agoPerhaps amongst the technical crowd. I clearly remember the average dial up user at that time was excited about "surfing the net".
- foodstances 8y agoBecause they did use more than the web. Usenet, e-mail, FTP, etc.
- nineteen999 8y agoYes and as another responder pointed out Gopher as well. Perhaps that's my bias I think that was still mainly the techy crowd. Most of the non-technical people I helped get connected in those days were only interested in how to find the Netscape browser icon. With Eudora email and later Outlook Express as a close second. They certainly didn't really differentiate the Internet from the Web. Perhaps that was just my limited experience here in Australia.
- u801e 8y agoMost people I knew called it being online or on the internet in the mid to late '90s. A lot of people I knew used applications like Free Agent and mIRC and a certain GUI FTP client (which I can't remember the name of).
- notyourwork 8y agoFlashFXP was my goto awhile ago.
- mstade 8y agoYou mean the information superhighway? ;o)
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- tingletech 8y agobut "surfing the net" could have meant gopher too in 1995
- M_Bakhtiari 8y agoEspecially in countries with languages where there are no separate words for "net" and "web", which are quite a few.
- Bluestrike2 8y agoFair enough, particularly since the topic is ssh.