From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Josh Good <pepe@naleco.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:42:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBd70CRyzv0iWQ_TNGkaXUjRcj6XVwC+rqD7yag9qEyMBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBfN3jyDGraaVzQishzERAJAXFSpFMegwfxXQK_vUNRQDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Just for a little perspective here: my father worked for Bell Labs as a
sysadmin, so we had much more computer exposure and internet access than
your average person, and it wasn't until I believe 1992 that we actually
got an internet connection at home as opposed to using a terminal with a
modem to connect to the labs. Things moved fairly quickly around this
time, and there was a huge difference in internet penetration in say 1996
vs. 1992 amongst the general populace. In 1992 you probably would have
gotten blank stares asking the average person on the street about the
internet, and in 1996 in the next town over there was an internet cafe.
Even then, this was the east coast of the US - I'm sure the interior of the
country with its much more vast physical distances was a few steps behind.
-Henry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:33 Josh Good
2021-03-17 20:57 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-17 21:04 ` Al Kossow
2021-03-17 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:08 ` Jim Capp
2021-03-17 21:26 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-17 21:40 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-17 21:42 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-03-18 5:10 ` Wesley Parish
2021-03-18 1:15 ` [TUHS] XENIX or UNIX? (was: Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse!) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-18 1:21 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-20 0:12 ` Tony Finch
2021-03-18 23:05 ` [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-03-19 1:45 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-19 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-19 2:06 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-19 2:59 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-19 17:27 ` Chris Torek
2021-03-17 23:18 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-17 23:22 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-18 1:23 ` Richard Salz
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