Why do you need this information? Are you planning on going back in time? Do you want to feel like you missed out when you start hearing the stories of all the lower prices?I know there is already a thread for 2000, so i'd thought i'd start one for 1990. So how was the hobby scene back then (before the internet as we know it). Prices, quality of service, etc?
Kinda like what was going on in the 90s in Welland at Roman's Babies and the Atlas Hotel!........the old West in the 1870s - the brothel was upstairs from the saloon in every town
Well, maybe not;the 1890s would have been awesome; red light districts in New York, New Orleans, etc.
the old West in the 1870s - the brothel was upstairs from the saloon in every town
price was lessI know there is already a thread for 2000, so i'd thought i'd start one for 1990. So how was the hobby scene back then (before the internet as we know it). Prices, quality of service, etc?
Polar bears, it was the ice age!There were wolves roaming the streets of Toronto or was it dinosaurs?
It was. The web protocol wasn't invented until 1991.i heard that pre-TERB, there was USENET, but I'm not sure if USENET was being used much in 1990.
Yes there used to be lots of reviews on Usenet and Google GroupsIt was. The web protocol wasn't invented until 1991.
Before the web, the internet was mostly email, FTP, usenet and IRC.
And remember all the jokes about California was so zany because everyone supposedly had one?cell phones were the size of suitcases