When did people start using their computers to communicate?

[JacquelineDeane55]

When did people start using their computers to communicate? Was that back in the 1990s?

I started using a computer in the 1990s when I was 9 years old, but it was an older Macintosh -- it was the first computer I ever used. I used it to talk to people, to watch videos, and to role-play with them, if I remember and I had a good time because I was only a kid (and childhood is a fun time).

I remember taking typing lessons because I was not as good of a typer today as I am right now. Now I can type on my keyboard really fast with making few typos.

Nowadays my sister and I each have our own computers (they are newer more advanced models from what we used to have) and we talk to people on our own frequencies but they are custom made as we have liked them to be. They cost us a load of change, if I remember correctly and that makes me cringe (what I am trying to say is that our computers were expensive).

I am a little bit confused as to the history of the computer in general. I don't think that the Internet was around until the 1990s, was it? But I think that old-time computers, like the ones in the 1930s, stretched along the perimeter of an entire wall (nowadays they are small as they have evolved over the decades). Am I right?

 

[Unix]

Internet connection costs more than my several computers. Later on my mum will quit this internet connection and then I will not take an own subscription - it's not worth the money. All I want to do I can do offline - I have prepared for that for over 2 years. I can make phone calls within the country for free:

Nowadays my sister and I each have our own computers (they are newer more advanced models from what we used to have) and we talk to people on our own frequencies but they are custom made as we have liked them to be. They cost us a load of change, if I remember correctly and that makes me cringe (what I am trying to say is that our computers were expensive).

 

[Sketcher]

The Internet was around well before the 1990's, that's just when it became commercial. The Internet was born as ARPANET, which was deployed in 1969.

 

[EphesiaNZ]

Next year will mark my 20th year on the internet. For me, it was better back then even though it was slower. Today the net is littered with idiots who want to tell you what their latest latte was like or, parade themselves with a selfie.

 

[hedrick]

Email was around when I was in grad school in 1970 or so. I didn't get the impression that it was new. This article identifies various early email systems in the 1960s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Host-based_mail_systems

Compuserve claims to be the first (commercial?) service to offer email for PCs in 1979, but that claim seems to be kind of qualified.

Networking work was already being done in the 1960's. The Arpanet seems to have started in 1969. I'd guess that interpersonal communication was done in some form from the beginning.

 

[Sketcher]

Next year will mark my 20th year on the internet. For me, it was better back then even though it was slower. Today the net is littered with idiots who want to tell you what their latest latte was like or, parade themselves with a selfie.

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[Gravy0558]

The internet was invented as a means for the government to communicate back in the 1960s. It slowly gained public use and now people in developing countries use it to communicate