• novibe@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    In 82 I don’t think there was any computer network in the US or Europe that wasn’t an academic network to share papers…

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      Well I was thinking that other places had Usenet, which had slightly more widespread use. My grandparents had some kind of Usenet connection in 85 they used to send emails to their pharmacist, for instance.