history - When did AOL start offering Internet email? - Retrocomputing ...
Feb 23, 2021 · The new e-mail gateway allows America Online subscribers to easily send mail and to receive mail from users of CompuServe, MCI Mail, AT&T Mail, AppleLink, Sprint Mail and other …
How did Microsoft take over Winsocks (Windows Sockets)?
Mar 6, 2018 · In the early days of the Internet, Windows users had to install an application called "Trumpet Winsock" in order to use Internet apps like e-mail, FTP, WWW, etc. There were …
How did people get apps on their computer before the Internet?
Oct 3, 2022 · The Internet has existed since the 90s, but how did people get apps and games installed on their computers before that and how were they accessed and saved?
internet - What led to the fall of shell accounts? - Retrocomputing ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Back then (i.e. in the days of BBS, dialup mail distribution networks and such), it was very hard for a person not associated with an university to get direct TCP/IP internet access at all; …
What was the equivalent of "America Online" (AOL) outside America?
AOL was less successful because their 'walled garden' approach was outdated by the time it launched here, whereas the Freeserve CDs were much more useful, incorporating a full TCP/IP attack for …
network - How did the AOL software provide internet access to other ...
Mar 5, 2024 · The AOL software at that time was a semi-walled garden in that a lot of the available content was AOL-specific and could only be accessed using functionality provided by the AOL …
history - What did AOL use for pre-web GUI client? - Retrocomputing ...
Feb 23, 2021 · 38 AOL was a big early Internet service provider, and of course by the late nineties, the most popular Internet protocol was the web; most users spent most of their Internet time in a web …
internet - How did WebTV (MSN TV) work - Retrocomputing Stack …
May 8, 2017 · The WebTV product was an adapter that allowed a television set to be connected to the Internet, primarily for web browsing and e-mail. The setup included a web browser, a corded or …
Are there any MP/M multiplayer games?
Mar 7, 2025 · MP/M systems were capable of having multiple simultaneous users on terminals sharing files. Are there any known examples of games that leveraged this to create multi-player games …
Differentiating between Windows 98 boot menu selections
Feb 6, 2025 · The bootloader of Windows 98 (if configured so via msdos.sys) can display a boot menu after io.sys is loaded, but before config.sys is processed. The bootloader can even chainload another …