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dasoomer t1_iu41yw3 wrote

Reply to comment by SgtRamonRuiz in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_

It would be 4 years or so until the public Internet was introduced even. Crazy to think about.

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Old-and-grumpy t1_iu5t2j8 wrote

You could email though. My brother and I used to write one another back then from different college campuses.

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over__________9000 t1_iu88j3b wrote

They had public internet in 1989

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dasoomer t1_iu8lddl wrote

Incorrect. Internet became public domain in 92/93. You're talking about the commercial availability which is entirely different.

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over__________9000 t1_iu8p5gq wrote

Are you thinking of the web? That’s a separate thing from the internet.

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dasoomer t1_iu8q7xg wrote

The public Internet, which your average Joe could use and sign up for in home use, was early 90s.

I was alive. We were one of the first people to get it.

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dasoomer t1_iu8qvke wrote

In the early 1990s the Internet was big news ... In the fall of 1990, there were just 313,000 computers on the Internet; by 1996, there were close to 10 million. The networking idea became politicized during the 1992 Clinton–Gore election campaign, where the rhetoric of the information highway captured the public imagination. On taking office in 1993, the new administration set in place a range of government initiatives for a National Information Infrastructure aimed at ensuring that all American citizens ultimately gain access to the new networks.[20]

From wiki - the internet has been around for awhile. The public Internet has not.

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