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> The early Internet for some of us, where a lot of that character overlapped into online communities that were highly geek-oriented due to our early adoption,
by Dracophoenix 4y ago
> The early Internet for some of us, where a lot of that character overlapped into online communities that were highly geek-oriented due to our early adoption, held a lot of that individual character that we often look back on with nostalgia and an awe of charm.
Before 1993, was there really a distinction between USENET and the early Internet? It seems that most of the geekery that you refer to took place on newsboards as opposed to the ostensibly more serious nets like BITNET/NSFNET.
- icedchai 4y agoThere was a pretty big distinction. I was on the Internet since 1991. Early Internet was being able to use IRC and telnet to MUDs. It was a whole other world. Email and Usenet was a subset, just "offline" access through UUCP. Many people had that for free or low cost since one UUCP node could just give feeds to another over dialup.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoWhat popular MUDs do you recall there being in 1991?
- icedchai 4y agoI don't remember the names, but I remember telneting into some from university dialups with lax security. This was definitely 1991 - 1992.