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At the risk of being unpopular
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , David Rance wrote: URG is a child of its time. It's like the Fidonet which was the first worldwide general means of electronic communication. ... Like hell it was! Sorry, but that accolade must go to UUCP; while it was little used outside of academia, that was simply because few other people had computers that weren't tightly tied down. Even Usenet (i.e. newsgroups as we know them) dates from several years before Fidonet, and I have been using it in its previous form since 1979. By the time Fidonet appeared, UUCP had escaped from academia, and the 'Internet revolution' had started. Google have stopped making their history public, but their group archive dates from 1981. Fidonet dates from 1983. I said that it was the first *general* means of electronic communication. By that I mean available/affordable to all. UUCP may well have predated it but UUCP was not available to all because of the high cost of getting connected to the Internet, certainly in the UK, until 1992 when Demon first made it affordable here. You were in a privileged position in academia that few of us could enjoy. Tom Jennings' Fidonet was a do-it-yourself solution, springing off the back of bulletin boards. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK |
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