How many of u on SW remember when there was no internet ? Well it wasnt allowed to the general...

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.

FigNewton

In 1994 I was one of the few people in our company to be granted internet access to help create images for our website. I felt like a god with so much (at the time) at my fingertips. I think I started surfing for porn within 10 minutes 🤣

SW-User

What Nasa had wasn't the Internet we now have. That's all due to the structure and protocols Tim Berners-Lee came up with whilst at Cern in the 80s.

I remember using DECTalk a chat program in the early 80s whilst I worked in banking. I'd use it to talk to the office while in site. That was the start for me. Then opera and netscape navigator.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

Most of my life was pre-internet. My first internet connection was with a Webtv box.

hami1091 · 41-45, F

I remember IMing in the late 90s. And having to make a Yahoo account I think Jr year computer lab. The mid to late 90s was the time PCs were coming more common in households.

Of course I remember days of Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego too.

DragonFruit · 61-69, M

I was working for a law firm with no computer/internet. This was in the 1980s. A couple of years later, the firm got computers, and we had to transfer information from our files into the computers.