Computer bulletin boards date to the very beginning, maybe 1980. You needed a modem and you paid by the minute for the long distance phone call. Prohibitive unless you lived in a place like San Francisco. I know some people who accessed the web thru a university or military connection. At best it must have been painfully slow and unreliable.
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