How many of u on SW remember when there was no internet ?

Well it wasnt allowed to the general public that is. I understand that NASA had it back in the 70s and communicating like we are today back then. But anyway, how many of you people here remember when we did not have the internet or email. During the 80's and 90's there was no social online media. There was no Facebook. There was no Instagram crap. And no Yahoo or Gmail.
How many of you remember. 🙂

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tzzzzr · 61-69, M

I used 80 column cards in college for my Cobol class. That was a long time ago.

Pre-internet the first big hospital I worked at used a rotary dial phone to submit electronic bills to the state. You dialed the number and when the computer answered the handset was put in a cradle so the two computers could "talk". I wrote the code for it.

SW-User

@tzzzzr I remember cards (Fortran) and paper tape we used to load the program onto Eprom via paper tape

tzzzzr · 61-69, M

@SW-User My first job was night operator on an IBM System 36. The only way to get data out of it was the printer or a single slot 8" diskette. It took 28 diskettes to back it up which I did every night.