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Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/06/looking-back-on-the-source-the-first-online-information-utility-through-teletype-transcripts.html
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:
— Read the restTCA launched The Source at COMDEX in June 1979.
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/08/06/looking-back-on-the-source-the-first-online-information-utility-through-teletype-transcripts.html
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