On 18/03/2024 16:59, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message , at 09:48:08 on Mon, 18 Mar
> 2024, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
>> On 17/03/2024 12:33, Roland Perry wrote:
>>> In message , at 09:15:20 on Sun, 17 Mar
>>> 2024, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
>>>> 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.
>
>>> An airline booking system using UUCP, that would be a novelty. Did
>>> you miss the bit where I said Intenet BROADBAND?
>>
>> nope.
>> I was talking about wide area networking pre Internet, Broadband is
>> only a subset of that, and the term was only invented to describe
>> using phone lines beyond the audio BASEBAND (i.e. modems).
>
> I was using the term to distinguish it from dial-up Internet access,
> which became a thing in 1994. And that's later than the time period we
> were originally discussing.
>
>> IBM had a world wide computer network using I think X-25 way back in
>> the early 1980s
>
> World wide amongst their facilities, but did they resell access to
> customers like travel agents?
If you had an IBM mainframe, it could come with wide area networking and
email to any other mainframe that was connected up.
You got about as much computing and network power as raspberry pi 3
with a modem ÷)
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