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Originally Posted by VydorScope
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.  |
As I recall, Tim Berners-Lee had it up and running in '89, every Electronics and Computing magazine was full of it. Then they developed HTML in '90. I was playing around with it in '91, but it was through CSIRONet and might possibly have been exclusive to CSIRONet (A Government agency.) It skyrocketed from '93 after Mosaic was released. I had my first website up in '94 - hosted by what is now Melbourne IT. No PayPal or "Shopping Cart" software then so it was hard to make it commercially successful.
I still think that was more fun back in the days of Fidonet, mail-lists and Newsgroups. The web made it into something quite different, totally changed the character.