Offtopic noise: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a...

[Owen Smith]

The web itself didn't exist until the early 1990s, and it took a bit longer than that for web forums to appear. Internet email is nearly 20 years older than that and was in quite wide use when I started using it in the mid 1980s. I'm less sure about dates for newsgroups but I believe they are also substantially older than the web, by at least a decade.

So not from remotely similar eras, unless by that you mean "the couple of decades when only techie people used the internet".

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

> On 18 May 2016, at 12:36, C E Macfarlane <c.e.macfarlane at macfh.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Email, newsgroups, and web forums all date from a similar era!