Mar 152016
A British TV show from 1984 demonstrates the state of the art in electronic communications. At the time, the precursors of AOL and Prodigy and such were on their feet (CompuServe started in 1969), offering video game downloads over phone lines via modem, but it’d be a few years yet before email really caught on. Still, this is earlier than many people really assume email-like services to have been available. This was not a true internet, as it did not have the nuclear war survivability redundancy that the ARPAnet would give it, but it’s a fun early stab.
Note just how easy it is to log on…