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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts) Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:05 PM Jul 2013

News report from 1981 about the Internet

Maybe we should return to 1981 and tell them not to do it. No! Stop! You will make people addicted to a thing called Facebook and we'll get spied on and...You get the idea

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News report from 1981 about the Internet (Original Post) damnedifIknow Jul 2013 OP

$0.20 for a paper? Damn how time flys! Dustlawyer Jul 2013 #1

$40 call to download a newspaper in 1981 Dollars Anarcho-Socialist Jul 2013 #2

At least they hadn't yet figured out how to shit your bed with pop-up ads like they do now. corkhead Jul 2013 #3

Its CompuServe, not the Internet. nt cprise Jul 2013 #4

I think that was a local BBS or server run by a newspaper. The commercialization of the ARPANET jtuck004 Jul 2013 #5

Gotz to post this again... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2013 #6

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)

1. $0.20 for a paper? Damn how time flys!

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:11 PM

Jul 2013

Anarcho-Socialist

(9,601 posts)

2. $40 call to download a newspaper in 1981 Dollars

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:22 PM

Jul 2013

Ouch

corkhead

(6,119 posts)

3. At least they hadn't yet figured out how to shit your bed with pop-up ads like they do now.

Reply to Anarcho-Socialist (Reply #2)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 08:46 PM

Jul 2013

cprise

(8,445 posts)

4. Its CompuServe, not the Internet. nt

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 09:04 PM

Jul 2013

jtuck004

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5. I think that was a local BBS or server run by a newspaper. The commercialization of the ARPANET

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Wed Jul 31, 2013, 12:01 AM

Jul 2013

was still a few years off, and is what connects us today.

They weren't connected to that, other than perhaps being able to dial-up to another local server.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

6. Gotz to post this again...

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Wed Jul 31, 2013, 12:19 AM

Jul 2013

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