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What is the earliest thing that you can remember seeing or hearing online? (self.main)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

BBSes. My first modem was for my Commodore 64. All you could connect to were Bulletin Board Services which were simply someone else's computer that was running software. Usually you would get some sort of menu if options when you connected.

CompuServe came not too long after that probably on an 8088 or 386 PC.