BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: people with autism
De:       Mike Powell
Data:     Thu, 7 May 2026 20:14:00 +0000
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N>  DW> Correct but, for most young people who don't remember internet before the
N>  DW> web, that is mostly all it is... well, that is until apps surplanted the
N>  DW> websites.
N> 
N> I'm a millennial/xennial, but by the time I had heard of the internet (1995),
N> the web already existed.  To me, "internet before the web" suggests BBSes and
N> services like Prodigy, AOL, etc., which technically weren't the internet (and
N> services like AOL & such initially weren't connected to the internet, from what
N> I recall).

The "internet before the web" was email, LISTSERV, usenet, gopher, trickle, ftp, telnet, talk, and other (almost entirely) text based sites/protocols/utilities used by the universities and government sites that were using it before it became a commercial venture.  When I started university in 1988, they called it BITNET.  At some point between then and 1993, the university started calling it "the Internet" and BITNET branding disappeared from any interfaces we had with it.

To someone who was aware of it, and used it before then, Prodigy and AOL would be part of that demarcation line between before commercialization and after, after being "after the web."



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