I bought and sold computer equipment, published terrible poetry, and learned about LGBT matters. My university experience was dominated by Usenet. But I persevered and, by the time I went to university, understood all the intricacies of PLONK, ROFL, and Godwin's Law. Quite the world away from CompuServe's shiny software delivered on a free CD. This required downloading, installing, and configuring an NNTP client. Magical.Īt some point, I discovered Usenet and its decentralised collection of newsgroups. A couple of clicks and I could be discussing Babylon 5 with people in another country, downloading wallpapers, and uploading my poor attempts at fan-fiction. When I first got online, the World Wide Web was still in its infancy - so CompuServe was my gateway to the Internet. This is annecdata - not a serious academic study.
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