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Wrong wording. I think they refer to "commercial dial-up Internet connections". The first ones appeared in 1992. Non-commercial, educational/academic, research
by tecleandor 2y ago
Wrong wording. I think they refer to "commercial dial-up Internet connections". The first ones appeared in 1992.
Non-commercial, educational/academic, research... connections were available earlier. :)
- ssl-3 2y agoSomeone had better go back to 1989 and tell that to world.std.com.
- 0points 2y agoIn 1989 The World was a BBS service. You can read the history in their own words here: https://theworld.com/world/about/history/our_version https://theworld.com/world/about/history/our_version > If someone wanted a file from the real internet one of us would dial into an account somewhere, download the file, and put it somewhere on The World they could access it. Yes, manually!
- ssl-3 2y agoFrom your link: > in October 1989 The World became the first service on the planet offering internet access to the general public for a modest fee, around $20/month.
- tecleandor 2y agoI read yesterday the article "The First ISP" by Spike Ilacqua, in the February 1999 number of the "Usenix ;login:" magazine linked in Barry Shein's home page. There Spike says that at the beginning they only had a UUCP server and they called servers to exchange files during the day (like a FIDONET node), and they got their real "Internet" ISP license in 1992, just two days before Sprint got theirs.
- 0points 2y agoI stand corrected!