Chaos Communication Congress

BBSs and early Internet access in the 1990ies (34x21)

Air date: Dec 27, 2017

Speaker: LaForge This talk explains how individuals were able to communicate globally in the 1990ies using self-organized networks of BBSsin networks like FIDO and Z-Netz, before individual access to the Internet was possible. It also covers the efforts of non-profit organizations to provide individual access to Internet Mail+News via UUCP and later via IP during that period.