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30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world
- leejoramo 3y agoI had access to the early internet prior to the web, when I attended university. After graduating, I started to subscribe to the online service Delphi which in the USA was similar to CompuServe or AOL. But at the time, Delphi was the only such service to provide a gateway to the Internet. It was mostly useful for FTP and NNTP. Within a year or so, the the web became the focus. Still entirely text based, but so obviously the way forward.
- jleyank 3y agoThe Web might have changed the average person’s world but there were a whole lot of things that occurred first started with the Net itself. Gopher, Kermit, Usenet, … the pieces were there for a hacker with an itch to scratch and an idea to deliver. Opening up the internet and Usenet made the hacker world explode.