I just want to remind you that in 1992, the Internet cost $2.50 an hour to access ($4.00 after the first four hours a night), was three million times slower than WiFi, and nobody in your house could take phone calls while you used it. Doomscroll on THAT.
Unus Nemo
in reply to Chris Espinosa • •@Chris Espinosa
Seeing the public internet did not become available in most demographics until 1993, that was doing pretty good, and cheaper than AOL. Until the Internet was commercialized (monetized by large corporations) in 1995 most people would not even have an ISP they could connect to.
I have been around long enough to remember when the internet was the arpanet and was not available at all to the general public. I remember the arpa net at the university and using BBS at home and buying shareware floppies at a local vendor. I initially connected to BBS with a 300 baud modem and was so happy when I could upgrade to a 1024 baud. A baud is not a bit per second, it is half that by the way.
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽
in reply to Chris Espinosa • • •In '92, I still got Internet from my University ($512/semester), but paid $20/20 hours of Delphi, at 2400 bps. Once I had to pay for an ISP ('94?), it was <$30/mo unlimited time, but must've been 5K or 9Kbps by then.
And of course gopher, www, ftp, USENET, and telnet MUDs were much much leaner, faster experience for everything.
Modern "Internet" is awful slow.
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