Nooo... correction - I had a dial-up modem that could call up other dial-up modems, so just the local BBSes for me. You needed to subscribe to a provider to access the 'real' internets, and I don't think we had a CompuServe or AOL account (which was something like c.$15 for c.15hrs/mth?) until '92 or '93ish.
(By which time I had discovered girls, who were much more interesting to talk to on the phone all evening, which cut deeply into my computer-geeking time.) ;)
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Nooo... correction - I had a dial-up modem that could call up other dial-up modems, so just the local BBSes for me. You needed to subscribe to a provider to access the 'real' internets, and I don't think we had a CompuServe or AOL account (which was something like c.$15 for c.15hrs/mth?) until '92 or '93ish.
(By which time I had discovered girls, who were much more interesting to talk to on the phone all evening, which cut deeply into my computer-geeking time.) ;)