Replies to post #219678 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[Buckey]

I think I was posting on SH as early as 1997 or 1998

[bar1080]

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.