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Less adoption? There was no internet to adopt in 1981. If by some miracle your computer was on a network, it was CompuServe or Delphi or that one that catered
by reaperducer 4y ago
Less adoption? There was no internet to adopt in 1981.
If by some miracle your computer was on a network, it was CompuServe or Delphi or that one that catered to Apples. If you wanted to send an email, you did it at a public terminal at a university or a hippie tech commune.
- mistrial9 4y agomore specifically, there were two kinds of centralized network engineers in those days: military trained, and those that named their servers after Tolkien characters. The de-centralized BBS operators over common-carrier telephone lines were supposedly "hobbyists" but the patterns they established grew stronger over time. "hippie" is a slur btw, no one that was one would say that.. The word comes from a Look Magazine article on San Francisco IIR
- reaperducer 4y agoIf you think hippie is a slur, you weren't there.