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Marty seems to me like the kind of guy would have had that stuff in the 80s if anyone did. :)
I did too. I was programming in lotus 123 in 1987
As I knew persons who did personally find people using the internet in the 1980's, I would have to say it is perfectly possible to do so. There were stories on the news about it, too.
The internet was better in the 1980's than it is now in some ways. Due to less commercialism, less structure, one was more likely to get several million possibilities to choose from and then be able to narrow them down by various methods. Today's internet gives you way less information and it is more based on what the majority would be looking for (or, the corporations think you should be looking for) when a certain word is used than what you actually mean. The long lost internet was not nearly as assumptive, which made it both far more fun and infinitely easier to do strategic searches on. I can't even find a lot that I used to find way back when, and, it is not because they no longer exist. When I happen to run into an old link I saved, I can reconnect with something I thought was gone. It is still there, but, it can't be found through any of the searching platforms, anymore.
Sir, I thought it was written wonderfully, but now that you mention your PC and modem status with AOL and Prodigy real life background: I would have loved to read a scene where his son and Samantha rely on one of his Computer Science majors friends there in the dorm to take the impossible and make it possible through 1986 technology! :) Possibly tie it all in where his father actually visits the dorm that one time. That would have been a fun read! :) - Thank you and I will see you at the 2023 Historical Fiction Conference in San Antonio.
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Marty seems to me like the kind of guy would have had that stuff in the 80s if anyone did. :)
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I did too. I was programming in lotus 123 in 1987
As I knew persons who did personally find people using the internet in the 1980's, I would have to say it is perfectly possible to do so. There were stories on the news about it, too. The internet was better in the 1980's than it is now in some ways. Due to less commercialism, less structure, one was more likely to get several million possibilities to choose from and then be able to narrow them down by various methods. Today's internet gives you way less information and it is more based on what the majority would be looking for (or, the corporations think you should be looking for) when a certain word is used than what you actually mean. The long lost internet was not nearly as assumptive, which made it both far more fun and infinitely easier to do strategic searches on. I can't even find a lot that I used to find way back when, and, it is not because they no longer exist. When I happen to run into an old link I saved, I can reconnect with something I thought was gone. It is still there, but, it can't be found through any of the searching platforms, anymore.
Sir, I thought it was written wonderfully, but now that you mention your PC and modem status with AOL and Prodigy real life background: I would have loved to read a scene where his son and Samantha rely on one of his Computer Science majors friends there in the dorm to take the impossible and make it possible through 1986 technology! :) Possibly tie it all in where his father actually visits the dorm that one time. That would have been a fun read! :) - Thank you and I will see you at the 2023 Historical Fiction Conference in San Antonio.
