The year I think was 1994-95 and I invested in my first home computer,a Time machine made in Blackburn,I do believe.
I remember picking it up and carefully following the instructions on setting up before taking the plunge and setting up an account.
I think that it was turnpike that I went with,I may be wrong it could have been tiscali but I do remember my first explorations into cyberspace,excitedly finding that I could read papers online.(I am pretty sure that the New York Times was one of the first that I found,)
Then setting up an email account and sending my first email,pressing the send button and wondering whether in that short time it had actually gone.
How times change,in more ways than one.I am sure that the net's potential at that time was not realised.We certainly didn't have it at work at that time.
Steve's experiences were quite different he
"went online" years before there was a Web. In the mid-1980s, I got a computer and a 300-bps modem. I discovered a whole world of online conversation. Before long, I was hooked, and within a year I was running my own Citadel bulletin board.
But I do remember what Steve next refers to
Then came a wave of news companies rushing to get online, without stopping to think about how people use the medium. We wound up with shovelware "online editions" -- boring, predictable replicants of printed newspapers that failed to take advantage of any of the Internet's capabilities.
Most newspapers imagine themselves to have moved beyond that stage. I'm not so sure. "Allowing" comments on stories is hardly innovation.
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