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Nobody I know was connected to the internet at their home prior to 1994.
And I knew guys who worked at PC Warehouse and lots of geeky college kids.
I was not on it until 1995.
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That CompuServe commercial was totally cool in late '91. Then, people began using Prodigy in good old 1992. As a fan of the very early 90's, you have remember this stuff.
What's funny is that you can still find abandoned websites from circa 1995/96 out there on the Internet... There was a recent article in Wired that listed a bunch of them.
Or here's an exciting website for the Dole/Kemp ticket in 1996. Remember how excited everyone was for the possibility of a Bob Dole presidency? No, you don't?
Here is a website that I created in 1998, and continued to update until 2002. It was the first appearance on the web of a list of all minor league baseball teams. At the time, only a handful of minor league teams even had a homepage of their own.
I would say before '95 or so, mostly hobbyists and computer programmer types knew about the Internet. Some large universities were online already, so probably the people who knew about it the most were people associated with colleges, parts of the government and computer geeks. The commercial part of the web was mostly used by computer hobbyists at that time. I don't think most people would have called it the "web" at the time, I think that term caught on a bit later, but I could be wrong. They either would call it the "Internet" or "being online", "World-wide Web", or something like that.
By late '95, after Windows '95 was released, the Internet was definitely going mainstream with tons of AOL, Prodigy and a few other ads on TV. The average person under the age of 30 or even 40 might have known about the Internet at the time, but I am sure there were still quite a few in the general public who did not really know much about it yet or know how to describe it well.
I first heard of the www coming out talking with people in telnet sessions. I considered the internet to be about dial-up modems, for me a free-net and telnetting here and there and using ftp. There were some pretty cool MUDs and internet talkers out there late 80s and early 90s. I did the bulletin boards before that, then as soon as there was a free net here, I got on that and hit the internet through telnet.
Here is a website that I created in 1998, and continued to update until 2002. It was the first appearance on the web of a list of all minor league baseball teams. At the time, only a handful of minor league teams even had a homepage of their own.
Wow I think I went to your site at one point back in the day! In the late 90s I remember they'd have this annual magazine that had all the minor league teams and affiliates and I'd buy it every year just to know the teams and see who went out of business or moved. Glad stuff is so much easier now but I miss those old school websites that were simple, i get a weird nostalgia
It was pretty well known, but very limited in comparison to now. Back then, you had a choice of one of three internet services: AOL, Compuserve, or Prodigy.
I had a modem and internet service with my first home PC in 1993.
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How well known was the Internet prior to 1995?
