I can't speak about 1981 or 1983, I came to the internet ~1990. I just learned coding in 1981 and wrote some games in 1983 I guess. Funny fact, I didn't have e

I can't speak about 1981 or 1983, I came to the internet ~1990. I just learned coding in 1981 and wrote some games in 1983 I guess. Funny fact, I didn't have email - or at least didn't use it a lot outside university, cross organisations. I mostly used Usenet/NEWS to interact with people outside our university. This was Germany ~1990 and there were no domains yet in common use. Emails used a complicated addressing scheme and it was unclear how to reach people or find emails (there was no WWW to check a website for an email). You might find them in signature of Usenet posts if at all. "DNS system" Same here, e.g. for FTP we used a text file with IP addresses of FTP servers (for downloading Linux and Aminet stuff) Not sure this was specific to Germany, but the domain name system really came around with the WWW. I even wrote the code that took owning a domain in Germany (I worked at an ISP) from $1000/year (if I remember correctly, wished I had bought Schmidt.de when it was available, even with the price tag) to $1/month with email (the company was called Strato and wanted to launch cheap web+domain+email, the idea was to auto create web+email config from an Oracle database instead of manual configuring servers) for the masses.