Compunet: Britain's Forgotten Pre-Internet Community
Compunet: Britain’s Forgotten Pre-Internet Community Long before Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, there was Compunet. In 1982, in a small flat in Islington, London, two teenagers set up a computer bulletin board system on a network called Prestel. Within a few years, it had become one of the world’s first genuine online communities - thousands of people meeting in cyberspace, exchanging messages, playing games, and falling in love, all before the internet existed in public consciousness. ...