I had access to ARPANET[1] (which later evolved into "the internet"[2]) in the early 1980s when I was in academia. In those days, long before the web, most peop

I had access to ARPANET[1] (which later evolved into "the internet"[2]) in the early 1980s when I was in academia. In those days, long before the web, most people just used it for e-mail, FTP and TELNET. This was before we had .com, .edu, etc. - the top-level domains were .ARPA (civilian) and .MIL (military). We were connected to the net via a BBN IMP[3] in the computer room. In 1991, I first had dialup internet access from home with a small, local ISP using a 14.4k modem. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor