[email protected] wrote:
I guess batch accounts back when Darpanet was still a dream doesn't
count either...
Well, for that matter, the shell account I mentioned didn't have
real-time access to the Internet, either. Instead, it connected to a
host via dialup twice a day and sent and received email and Usenet
messages that were queued up. Some of the early-1980's BBS systems had
"echomail", where messages would propagate from one BBS to another, but
I don't know if any of the systems I used had this capability.
I remember once spending a small fortune on long-distance phone charges,
because the only system that had some source code I needed was in Texas,
and I had to be on the phone for twelve hours or so downloading it.
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