On Monday, 1 October 2018 07:08:43 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 30/09/18 15:33, Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:26:57 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Same here, although it was over uucp not the Internet.
We started reading Usenet comp groups probably around 1985.

Outside of computer nerds, Usenet mainstream groups were scarcely
populated at all until the early 90s. Even then the discussions were
rather parochial. ISTR an awful lot of threads on JANET - the Joint
Academic Network IIRC. No idea what the **** it was, but that seemed to
be all that anyone was interested in back then.



JANET was the UKs own Internet.

Was it the UK, I thought it stood for something .

Joint Academic Network .....