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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #15 on: April 10, 2014, 11:50:46 am »
Mind blown O.O
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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2014, 02:02:18 pm »
Please someone explain me why/how Google Groups have some posts predating the Internet? Were those from message boards on primitive forms of network like the Minitel?
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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2014, 05:36:15 pm »
ARPANET has been around since the 60's, but only for military and interuniversity communication, but it's only in the 90's companies started selling Internet connections and HTTP was invented, thus beginning its common withspread use.

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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #18 on: April 10, 2014, 08:05:20 pm »
I knew about ARPANET, Usenet and stuff, but wasn't that stuff used for research / military usage only? I thought it was with the popularization of the internet that those networks started to be used outside that range, hence why I'm surprised about that hockey necropost.

I have seen logs from usenet discussion, for example those in which Torvalds announces he wrote a basic OS for Intel 386 processors (Which later became Linux), but those are usually programming or research oriented.
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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #19 on: April 10, 2014, 09:57:57 pm »
I guess you could do whatever you want to on university computer science labs back then...

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Re: 29 years necropost (yes, that's possible)
« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2014, 10:58:23 pm »
I knew about ARPANET, Usenet and stuff, but wasn't that stuff used for research / military usage only? I thought it was with the popularization of the internet that those networks started to be used outside that range, hence why I'm surprised about that hockey necropost.

I have seen logs from usenet discussion, for example those in which Torvalds announces he wrote a basic OS for Intel 386 processors (Which later became Linux), but those are usually programming or research oriented.
I have the feeling that mailing lists became mainstream in the 80's, which probably explains why Usenet was popular back then. HTTP, on the other hand, only arrived in the mid 90's.