Interesting article! I remember the days well. AOL cost a fortune, not to mention the long distance phone costs to reach the nearest dial-up access number. Modems were incredibly slow, and I used "usenet", which was provided by a guy in town who somehow had access to it. I also got my first email address from him. It's hard to remember all the details now, but it was an exciting time - what can we discover on usenet today!!! It eventually made genealogy MUCH easier. We used to have to make 2 hour trips to the nearest LDS center to scan through microfilm and microfiche that had to be ordered in advance. Not easy. On 1/14/2016 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > With my association with UMassD, MIT, WHOI and acronyms in general, I > received an email with a link to an article published by PRI in which a > couple of the founders of the Internet ponder its future now it has > turned 25.

As you say, an exciting time. I was an IT graphist working for the CEO of the european consortium which held the final discussions in USA as to the percentage of each participant in setting up the Internet. A first time for me as my presentations went to and fro across the Atlantic!!! Later in the 1990s I worked for a group attempting to put in place in France the kind of Internet service we enjoy today, subscription sites, e-commerce and TV included. Sadly they were well before their time and their project didn't find investors. France is a conservative country but, thank goodness, we got there in the end, and my fh website continues to grow - much to my delight. Caroline ____ "Tilberia" http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~cmtilbury "TheTilbury Magazine" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/ttm/ttm_frontpage.html Every path has its puddle. Life has no reverse gear. NB: an e-mail message remains the Intellectual Property of the sender; traffic on this e-mail server may be normally subject to UK and French copyright law. -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Mather via <[email protected]> To: freepages-help <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:56 Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Early internet Interesting article! I remember the days well. AOL cost a fortune, not to mention the long distance phone costs to reach the nearest dial-up access number. Modems were incredibly slow, and I used "usenet", which was provided by a guy in town who somehow had access to it. I also got my first email address from him. It's hard to remember all the details now, but it was an exciting time - what can we discover on usenet today!!! It eventually made genealogy MUCH easier. We used to have to make 2 hour trips to the nearest LDS center to scan through microfilm and microfiche that had to be ordered in advance. Not easy. On 1/14/2016 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > With my association with UMassD, MIT, WHOI and acronyms in general, I > received an email with a link to an article published by PRI in which a > couple of the founders of the Internet ponder its future now it has > turned 25. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message