From:  The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date:  17 Mar 2024 17:15:20 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/cam.misc
Subject:  

Re: Cambridge North car parking

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On 17/03/2024 00:05, Roland Perry wrote:
> What network infrastructure was used, mindful that Internet broadband 
> wasn't a thing until late 90's. And then only in London

There have been networks using telex or teleprinter protocols since 
WWII. Usenet itself over UUCP dates back to the 1980s.

SABRE was an offshoot of the 1950s SAGE defense systenm built by IBM 
using phone lines and (presumably) modems

-- 
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over 
the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that 
authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frédéric Bastiat