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Originally Posted by DarkScribe
Opened to the public in '92? Cursed by Tim Berners-Lee in '89 would be closer to the mark. It was fun before the WWW dragged all the teenagers and grandmothers out of hiding.
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Pretty sure 1992 is the year it went from educational and research only to allow commercial traffic. It is also the year Delphi began marketing the Internet to its subscriber making the first big ISP. I got on via a small local BBS called Cybercomm in 1992 when you had to dial into the BBS, open a terminal shell on their server and fire of a proxy page that Lynx and other early browsers could use to get to the web. Email had a min 30 min delay, but was light compared to other networks.
I could have my dates wrong, that was a long while back.
