I’m new to the internet. Only got access to it 3 years ago. Didn’t own a smartphone until last year. I’m curious how it was for people who discovered it earlier.
I’m new to the internet. Only got access to it 3 years ago. Didn’t own a smartphone until last year. I’m curious how it was for people who discovered it earlier.
Where did you access it from? Was it a university? As far as I’ve learned, ARPAnet wasn’t available in residential settings.
If you knew the right people, you could get access outside of the universities and government.
Several services had onramps to segments of ARPAnet like GENiE and Compuserve, plus a lot of universities offered SLIP accounts you could dial in to them from home or your dorm and then use them as an arpanet gateway. A lot of universities kept those accounts open even after graduation