Long before broadband internet, IBM PCs running DOS could link with FidoNet for email and shared bulletin board posting. Sending an email in 1984 required one to connect a phone line to a modem.
The modem would then needed to be connected to a computer, and lastly, you’d have to call the computer with an actual rotary phone. Once connected through the Prestel network to Micronet, you had to seek out a specific page for emails (in this example, it’s 7776), to type in your message. Now the biggest issue was getting a IBM’s 1984 Personal Computer AT (AT), as it retailed for a whopping $5,295 ($15,814 in 2024).
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No one who wasn’t there can know the excitement of connecting to an email hub and then being able to have a conversation with some unknown person somewhere on the Internet. Pretty much a nightmare today, but back then it just suddenly opened doors to a world of possibilities,” said one commenter.
