In late 1985 "Westlaw" was fully functional in a DOS mode for Law
Students and Legal firms to search for legal case studies.
I was billed by the hour and it was expensive with 24400 modems.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:15:57 -0400 Todd Guttman <tguttman@COLUMBUS.RR.COM>
writes:
> I'm sure that some other listmembers remember the ol' days in the
> late 70's
> when the embryonic Internet did, in fact,  exist - the ARPAnet
> linked
> defense-funded institutions.  While in grad school in 1979, I recall
> playing
> a great Star-Trek style game (written, I believe in Basic) with
> other
> players at the University of Chicago, CWRU, and MIT.  The screen
> images were
> basic " *, ^, # " characters and it would sometimes take literally
> hours to
> send and receive moves.  Relatively few knew about the "net" and
> even fewer
> used it at that time for anything other than 'approved' research.
>
> In late 1978 or early 1979, as I recall, the Computerized Bulletin
> Board
> System (CBBS) protocols went online and people started sending
> messages via
> sysops to  public "boards" and others responded creating precursors
> of the
> virtual discussions we're having now.
>
> Todd
>
> 85 Westy 'Rivendel'
> Columbus, OH
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben T <BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: any flux capacitor conversions available?
>
>
> > In a message dated 9/30/01 8:11:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
> >
> > << does anyone else see anything peculiar about the year 1978 and
> >  Netscape and the Internet?? >>
> >
> >
> > Well, I don't remember exactly but when I worked for AT&T in 1982
> there
> was
> > this big fuss about something called the information superhighway.
> We
> finally
> > had a pilot system running about a year later. Another year later
> about
> 1984
> > The Net started to get traffic mostly from government
> institutions,
> > educational institutions and a handful of  engineers. I could be
> wrong
> about
> > the exact years but there was definitely no information
> superhighway or
> (aka
> > NET) in 1978.
> >
> > BenT
> >
>
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