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I don't see that as a problem. We had dial-up Prodigy in the 80s, and I was able to dial into the mainframe at work from home in the mid 90s. In fact I remember the company paying $700 for a 1,200 baud modem.
Prodigy isn't "The Internet" though. It's a walled garden service which IMO would not count.
I heard that over a third of US schools were online by 1994. This seems awfully early being that the Internet was only just starting to be open to the public right around that year.
Do you think they used NSFNET or perhaps are including online bulletin boards that aren't part of what we know as "The Internet" proper today?
Probably means just maybe 1 or 2 computers in the library.
People in IT and engineering were constantly asked to "wire" a school or church daycare back then. It was mostly telephone lines and 14.4k modems.
I got my first computer in 86, a turbo xt, and a lighting fast 600 baud modem. There were bbs's around then, and we started our own. We had a sysops club too. Not long after that the local bbs's started linking into the national bbs networks.
My husband had been online with a bbs before that using his own series of raido shack hard drives. He started with the Model 1.
We had (unfortunate) experience with compuserve. Your download crashed since their system crashed but you still paid for the hour. It took six months and direct notification of the bank not to pay them to get them to quit demanding money long after it was cancelled.
I was posting stories on Usenet by 88, and reading them before that. Sometimes I miss the way it wasn't such a central part of life for everyone and it felt like we has our own little nitch.
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in 1993/1994 there were entire computer labs on college campus with web access... I recall being on a number of music related web forums at the time, not so different that this forum... yeah, the layout was different, but otherwise the same. Having a computer or two in a HS isn't surprising, I would have thought it would have been more than a third, actually.
I heard that over a third of US schools were online by 1994. This seems awfully early being that the Internet was only just starting to be open to the public right around that year.
Do you think they used NSFNET or perhaps are including online bulletin boards that aren't part of what we know as "The Internet" proper today?
Do you mean elementary and high schools or colleges and universities?
I'd be surprised if that many high schools were on line by then, but my impression is that by 1994 just about every college (and certainly every university) was connected. My family got Internet access that year (via AOL) and I remember just about everyone I chatted with on USENET having an *.edu address.
Do you mean elementary and high schools or colleges and universities?
I'd be surprised if that many high schools were on line by then, but my impression is that by 1994 just about every college (and certainly every university) was connected. My family got Internet access that year (via AOL) and I remember just about everyone I chatted with on USENET having an *.edu address.
I'm talking K-12. And yeah, maybe it was only teachers or even just principals who had it. Like in Ferris Bueller from '86 the principal seemed to have some kind of online access.
It really doesn't sound all that strange. I would be shocked if most colleges and universities didn't have internet access of some sort by 1994. I was in middle school from September 1992 to June 1994 and we had one computer lab with internet access as did the high school.
It really doesn't sound all that strange. I would be shocked if most colleges and universities didn't have internet access of some sort by 1994. I was in middle school from September 1992 to June 1994 and we had one computer lab with internet access as did the high school.
It would be interesting to see a source though.
What kind of Internet was it? Was it the Web or more like newsgroups or USENET?
I'm talking K-12. And yeah, maybe it was only teachers or even just principals who had it. Like in Ferris Bueller from '86 the principal seemed to have some kind of online access.
In that case, the 35% stat is pretty surprising. My middle school computer lab in 1994 had a local network with its own message board, but we didn't have any kind of external network access, even via BBS. My high school didn’t get on-campus Internet until 1998 or 1999. And this was in an upper-middle-class NYC suburb, not somewhere rural or underfunded.
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