ninjainspandex wrote:Maybe I'm just a pervert
isiolia wrote:There were predecessors to the internet that would have given people a basic idea of what might be coming. As you mentioned, access at the time was very limited, but there were nationwide networks since the 60s.
In the consumer arena, the more common thing would be a Bulletin Board System (BBS), which is a lot more like what the initial parts of Wargames are like. You'd call in (via modem) directly to a server or whatnot, and access the various services that way. Very similar to the way that early internet services like Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy, worked, just without the access to the internet, as it wasn't a thing yet. My dad had us subscribed to a local one when we got our 386 back in the early 90s, which let us download shareware and so on (one of the ways that DOOM proliferated).
I think things took off fairly quickly there though, since offhand there's also Sneakers from '92 (would recommend), or The Net (if you like Sandra Bullock) from '95 that were also kinda tuned in to potential issues.
RCBH928 wrote:is quantum computing a technology that is eventually going to happen or is it a theory kind of thing like time travel?
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