How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
Tech Won't Save Us
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What Is the Difference Between the Bulleton Board and the Internet?
In the early Nineties, bulleton board systems were running on a telephone network connected through these motims. People working in universities or in research centres were experiencing a very different computing environment. They might have been using home computers, but dialing into time sharing systems or accessing eunuchs work stations. It wasn't possible for people on the other side to make that decision. There really was not widespread availability of t c p ip for home computers until 19 95 or 19 96. That's partly why the free and open source sophware conversation and the free sharing conversation that we talked about before weren't really connected.
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