[pressgang] Episode 6 - INTERFACE

[Calum Benson]

> On 21 Feb 2022, at 17:17, Katarina Hjärpe <katarina.hjarpe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Den mån 21 feb. 2022 kl 14:57 skrev Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com>:
> The very early use of the Internet, given that it was filmed in 1988, is pretty mind blowing. I guess it wasn’t called ‘The Internet’ at that time. I’m no expert, but I am guessing the technology they are using had been around for quite some time for use by scientists and computer boffins and high tech industries, but had only recently started to be available to the public?
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> I think it was called the Internet, because when I was doing a study among online fans around 2000 and asked them how many of them had been around before the Internet, I got lectured about how old the Internet was. I've forgotten how old it was, though! :-)

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Yep, the term "internet" was coined in 1974 [1]. The first bit of the "internet", called ARPANET, was developed in the late 1960's. As Vince says, though, the internet only really connected educational and government institutions until well into the 1980's. 

Surprisingly, it was 1992 before the first dial-up internet services became available for people to use at home. (Things like bulletin boards, AOL and CompuServe existed before that, but they were standalone services that weren't technically part of "the internet".)

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675

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