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[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 18:10, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, because "the 1980s and early 1990s" is before "The
> Internet" - at that time, internets operated generally through
> ARPAnet, from memory, unless they were standalone internets.

Not even slightly, no.

The email address in my sig -- lproven at cix.co.uk -- is hosted by CIX:
https://www.cix.uk/

Part of the reason I've kept it is that to the cognoscenti, a
cix.co.uk email address means you were old-school and were online
before the trendy public WWW came along. Few recognise it now but if
they do, the reaction is "whoah, this person has been online for
30-something years!"

Which I have.

I joined in November 1991. I have friends on there who joined when it
opened up for public subs in 1987.

On its boards, Cliff Stanford --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Stanford -- was discussing his
idea for a public ISP in a conference called cix:tenner_a_month. I was
in there. It became Demon Internet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet

CIX didn't give you a routed connection over dial-up in the '80s but
you could send and receive Internet mail, ftp files, access Usenet and
so on. You could also do ftp by email which was handy. You told a
batch server what files you wanted from where; it FTPed them to your
private space; then it emailed you when they were done; you logged in
and downloaded them direct from CIX's servers.

Before that, I did have PPP via CIS, AKA Compu$erve; I was 100277,414
or 100277.414 at compuserve.com

But before Demon you could buy dial-up from PIPEX in the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipex

Before that, I was on JANET via Royal Holloway University. I was
sending and receiving Internet email from 1985 on their cluster of 2
DEC VAX-11/780 machines.

The *Web* is a 1990s thing, but the Internet was around for public use
for a decade before that.

In the 1970s it was confined to universities and the military. Not by the 1980s.

I wasn't on it myself (because local phone calls cost money in Europe)
but many FidoNet BBSs were on the Internet in the late 1980s and you
could send and receive Internet emails through them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

CIX was inspired by, and ran the same host software, as BIX in the States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Information_Exchange

I had friends on that. Others used, and still use,  the Well, the
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link:

https://www.well.com/

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