Tom Baker, the best Doctor of all? I'm in, grabbing popcorn. I recall using GEnie (at least once) and I recall hearing about Delphi. I was trying to find early versions of their logo, such as from early advertisements - but so far can only find "late model" versions.
Then I started thinking about "how were they even advertised? having lots of phone numbers in different area codes would have been expensive, maybe they only advertised in a few cities back in those days?" But I don't remember any flyers about it - I think we just knew it from the local Computer Club, word of mouth. (I also remember Intel coming to early computers clubs, and raffling or tossing out a processor after a talk) On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 10:38 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote: > > Hey all, was Delphi accessible as a bulletin board before 1990? > > I'm only finding logos and info about Delphi post-1990. > > But for early 1980s, what as Delphi? Was it a telnet-sort-of-thing only > > accessed only from universities? > > I've searched through early BYTE and PC Mag and just not finding any > > advertisements about it. > > They started in 1981, and expanded in 1983. > They apparently still exist. > http://forums.delphiforums.com/delphihistory/messages/10/1 > > Competing with AOL, Prodigy, Netcom, etc. > > In those days, the internet was not open to the public (guvmint, academia, > military, etc.), so, to some extent those "services" were trying to > compete with the internet. > > > > Also, in your historical research, if you have not already done so, you > and your daughter have got to watch "Hyperland". > It was a 50 minute long BBC documentary in 1991? (PRE WWW) about the > future of the internet. It was written by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson, > and starring Tom Baker. > > https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland > > If you want subtitles/captions, 6 years ago, I created an .SRT (captions > file of it! > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive_web > (400MB > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hCJm9ZEADCblVSVlBxdmZyREU/view?usp=drive_web(400MB> > video with subtitles burned in) > .SRT file: > http://www.xenosoft.com/HyperlandCAPS_En_US_0_77.srt > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com >
