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  • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:48PM (1 child)

    by Webweasel (567) on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:48PM (#532945) Homepage Journal

    Got my first PC around 1986.

    I remember being online with the Delphi ISP sometime around 1994/95. This is where things get a bit hazy. When we signed up with Delphi, IIRC what you got was a Telnet session into their unix environment. You were not exactly online unless you knew how to connect to other servers from the shell prompt. AFAIK there was no web browser available via this method. Late 1995 the web really got noticed by the media (The information superhighway!). Delphi got bought by BT and customers were migrated across. We lost our Unix session, but got sent a windows 95 CD so we could upgrade the PC and have a web browser. Now considering Mosaic came out in 1993, I wonder if I just misremember, or could have used a browser and just didn't know.

    How does this tally with your experiences fellow soylentis? Was anyone else signed up to an ISP that only gave you a Unix shell session back in the early 90's? Could I have "surfed the web" and was just too stupid to know it? All I wanted to do was look at porn and play Doom with my friends. What I got was ASCII porn and it taking all night to download a 1mb file of a crappy 80's EGA game.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday July 10 2017, @04:25AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Monday July 10 2017, @04:25AM (#537026) Journal

    I remember living in CA for 1 year -- summer of 92 to summer of 93. If my memory serves, it was at some point in that timeframe that Delphi started giving access to internet services. I think there was an extra charge too. Of course, at that time, it was all text based.