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In reply to the discussion: I remember the Internet back in the early 1990s. [View all]MineralMan
(146,284 posts)18. I used Compuserve until about 2000.
I was using the Internet, too, of course, starting about 1993. Compuserve had its own browser, and I used that for some time, before switching to a stand-alone browser.
My first two business websites were hosted on Compuserve's OurWorld server, and was built with the Compuserve WYSIWYG editor. Then, when Microsoft launched FrontPage, I switched to real Internet hosting. I think that was in 1997. At the time, I had one of the first three websites selling mineral specimens to collectors.
It used to be lots of fun. Now, it's become just another work opportunity for me. Oh well. The excitement is gone forever, now.
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We can always use teletypes again!!! I used to use them to load small programs into mainframes. n/t
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#30
Nope, punched tapes with programs loaded into a teletype tied into the mainframe. The
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#53
Right. While I don't miss the prices, I miss the excitement so much! I trhought I was the only one
lunamagica
Dec 2017
#21
It opened a whole new world. It was a fantastic feeling. But I thoulght I was the only one for whom
lunamagica
Dec 2017
#29
... guess we'll have to go back to shortwave radio, all become hams, and hope they don't jam the
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#34
Neither Prodigy, Compuserv, AOL, nor GEnie started out as part of the internet
FarCenter
Dec 2017
#22
Maybe we can go back to the ARPANET! I used to use with with Telnet in the 70's , a terminal,
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#28
LOL! Like always keep a tube tester handy when working on an ENIAC computer with 18,000 tubes! Yep!
RKP5637
Dec 2017
#51