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JumpCrisscross 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

> commenter above is talking about the enthusiast-populated internet of the late 80s/early 90s, at which point it still wasn't even clear if it was legal to use the internet for commercial purposes

Source? Not doubting. But I have a friend who was buying airline tickets through CompuServe in the late 80s/early 90s.

hn_acc1 3 months ago [–]

Compuserve was NOT the internet. Compuserve / Prodigy / GEnie were early versions of Facebook. They also inter-operated (email) for some period of time. IIRC.

jasonfarnon 3 months ago | [–]

An important distinction, although I do remember AOL making a strong go at "branding" the internet by the late 90s.

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