Reply to post: Re: Even in the 1980's

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

jake Silver badge

Re: Even in the 1980's

Yes. UUCP, UUencode, xmodem and kermit all came about over a couple of years, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Not surprisingly, this was about the time that AT&T was forced to allow direct-connect modems on their lines, leading to modems becoming much smaller and cheaper than the old acoustically coupled versions.

This lead directly to Community Memory[0], Fidonet, BBSes and the like ... followed almost immediately by Delphi, TheWELL, BIX, and Compuserve (and Q-Link (AOL), yadda yadda yadda) ... and a little known thing known as dial-up Internet access.

The rest, as they say ...

[0] Edit: Community Memory was earlier. I'm concatinating time again.

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