Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Computer Chronicles - Online Services Part 1 (1987)" video.

  1. George’s questions are focusing on two main points: one is that the online services were notorious at the time for being overloaded and slow to respond at peak times, and the other is the bewildering inconsistency of command and navigation conventions between different services. I don’t think they really solved either problem. Before another ten years were up, they were rendered obsolete by the Internet and its “killer apps”: email and the World Wide Web.
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  2. 12:45 Ward Christensen — created XMODEM, and it seems also the first BBS.
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  3. This is a standard part of the pace of the show. It could be because they wanted to minimize the need to shoot unused footage to keep costs down. This was not exactly a big-budget production.
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