IBM had an internal network up and running in the early 80s, and deeply buried in the menus was a link into a subnetwork called PCLIB. It may have been internal access only, but I count it as "online". I guess you would call it an internal bulletin board for IBMers discussing PC stuff. It had forums, howto guides, FAQs etc etc, but it also had libraries of downloadable code that could make the original IBM PC do some great stuff - better emulators than IBM was selling at the time, all kinds of things that we would now call apps.
PCLIB was my first inkling that the world would be changed forever when very large numbers of people could link up and work on things.
(Score: 2) by aliks on Tuesday June 27 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)
IBM had an internal network up and running in the early 80s, and deeply buried in the menus was a link into a subnetwork called PCLIB. It may have been internal access only, but I count it as "online". I guess you would call it an internal bulletin board for IBMers discussing PC stuff. It had forums, howto guides, FAQs etc etc, but it also had libraries of downloadable code that could make the original IBM PC do some great stuff - better emulators than IBM was selling at the time, all kinds of things that we would now call apps.
PCLIB was my first inkling that the world would be changed forever when very large numbers of people could link up and work on things.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:37AM
too young...
1978 using UC and Cal State networks... PDP11, Cyber, IBM
1972 modem 75 baud. UC Berkeley Lawerence Hall of Science's HP2000, BART's Singer, Berkley School District HP2000.
Oh, the sound of teletypes in the morning.