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Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-my-day dept.

jfruh writes "The Slashdot readership is probably split pretty evenly into two groups. There are those for whom full-on Internet access has been available for their entire computer-using lives, and then there are those who wanted to use the Net from home before 1991, and who therefore had to use a BBS or an online service. Here's a tour of some of these services, including Prodigy, Compuserve, and of course AOL. This should be a nostalgic trip for the oldsters among us, and a history lesson for Gen Y readers."

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  1. Re:Oldster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Oldster" is oldfag for "oldfag." It's how we truly know that only newfags oldfag.

  2. Re:Oldster? by blahplusplus · · Score: 1, Troll

    An oldster is anyone older then roughly 30 (in the context of the article). People who can remember using 14.4 and/or slower modems, and playing things like LORD.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon