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August 6, 2022 11:35 am GMT

Looking back on The Source, the first online "information utility," through teletype transcripts

While working on a project to refurbish a 1970s teletype machine, Ars Technica writer, Cameron Kaiser, unearthed a manual and a cache of teletype printouts from The Source, the online service that predated Prodigy, Delphi, and QuantumLink.

The discover created a nostalgic gateway into the emerging online world of 1979:

TCA launched The Source at COMDEX in June 1979.

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