Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote:
"jamie" wrote in message
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I've been online since '82. Usenet newsgroups started, I think in '79
(without looking it up).

I thought that wasn't Usenet, specifically, but something else that
eventually evolved into Usenet. FidoNet or is that something else?

Usenet and BBSes started separately about the same time. FidoNet, as
I recall, was the first application of UUCP to a PC BBS net, adding PC
access to Usenet, in roughly 1988 or so.

Before that, Usenet was mostly university UNIX accounts around the world,
government agencies and companies with government contracts, scientific
corporations, and a number of public access UNIX dialup account providers.

1986, reading Usenet posts from people in areas downwind of Chernobyl
within days of the accident, is one of my early memories of the impact
of Usenet on worldwide communication.

--
jamie )

"There's a seeker born every minute."