Is it true that the internet was mainstream in 1990? Not the decade, but the year 1990. Someone told me it was.

no, the internet in 1990 was a handful of bored university students fucking around, 1994 is when it spread to general use among nerds

>>81682986 (OP)
Not until Windows 95, Internet Explorer, and AOL were all together at last.

>>81682986 (OP)
No. Not til closer to 2000.

>>81682986 (OP)
It was probably politically mainstream, but the internet itself was not used by the mainstream.

>>81682986 (OP)
no it wasn't really until smart phones that the internet went truly mainstream
throughout the 90s, it was typical to have a "family computer" and then kids might have an online games console
back then you really needed to build your own pc too if you wanted to play high end games and while even a teenager could do it normals aren't capable of anything other than being social
in 1990 barely anyone was online and they were all geeks

>>81682986 (OP)
No, it wasn't ubiquitous then in the home. People who had home computers then which also had internet connectivity were primarily hobbyists. I want to say 1996 is around the time adoption took off but only 16.7% of households had Internet access in the USA in 1996. It was 0.8% in 1990.

>>81682986 (OP)
No, the world wide web didn't even exist for the general public until 1993.
It wasn't just obscure before 1993. It literally didn't exist unless you were working at CERN.

people could dm each each other since like the 60s but it was only for nerds

>>81683148
Email and BBS systems predate WWW and were used by <1% of people.

>>81682986 (OP)
No. The internet became mainstream in the past 10 or so years. After Myspace fell out of popularity for being too obscure and tailored for weird nerds, and the bland grayscale Facebook took over, the internet became mainstream.
You can tell when the mainstream actually took ahold by looking at shortform content. Normies LOVE short form content. When Vine got popular, that's when the internet went full mainstream. Every normie everywhere was talking about this or that vine they saw and spewing vine memes.

There's your internet history lesson for the week. There will be a test on Friday that's worth 70% of your grade. If you do not pass, you will get OSS (outside suspension) and you must go outside and touch grass for at least 45 minutes every day.

>>81683161
try the 1860s

>>81682986 (OP)
If by mainstream you include non-subsaharan africa non-asian (besides east asia) then yes it was
Most people in europe and america used it at different points or some subset of internet
Otherwise the real bloom was in the 2000's. The actual real implosion worldwide of thirdies getting cheap internet and chnkphones is more towards the early 2010's

>>81683272
>yes it was
No it wasn't. Websites didn't even exist until 1993.

>>81683253
but you have to learn morse code for that. worst case scenario is you've mastered morse code?

>>81682986 (OP)
Someone lied to you. I was born in the 80s and my family was in a well off neighborhood in northern New Jersey where lots of people with good New York jobs lived. We got a computer with internet access about as early as any normal civilian family had it and it definitely wasn't in 1990. More like Mid-90s.

>>81682986 (OP)
GenX here, no the internet wasn't widely available in 1990. could you connect your computer to a modem and dial into a BBS or an ISP, sure. email, irc, newsgroups existed and something like the web was emerging but it was nothing like it is now with social media and online shopping and the absurd amount of ads.

>>81683406
What was the first porn sites like?

>>81683595
if I wanted to look at porn, I would download it from the newsgroups. streaming video was ridiculously bad.

>>81682986 (OP)
Bro home computers were barely a common household appliance yet, let alone connected to the internet.

>>81683595
Not him but I really miss how porn sites in the 90s and early-mid 00s didn't enable or push random fetishes in your face.

Websites always had webpage that was just referral links to other similar porn stars and more of the same. Not like the standard of hub-type porn sites like pornhub xvideos redtube etc etc etc where as soon as you hit the front page it's all "well why not look at incest fart videos? it does have a few million views after all"

back then if you were only into I don't softcore asian girls then you would only ever click out to other softcore asian girls' websites. If you were only into hardcore piss action then you would only ever click out to hardcore piss action websites. No one was getting any chocolate into anyone else's peanut butter so to speak.

Probably also because so much less of Gen X and Millenials turned out to be some weird gay trans thing. Zoomers were exposed to all sorts of weird gay trans shit the very first time they looked at any porn website, even if ironically as a joke on 4chan 10+ years ago.

>>81683836
I talked about jerking off to tranny porn during the early 2000s when I was in high school, but only because I liked getting attention for saying shocking or offensive things.
I actually only used regular lesbian porn in reality when it came to masturbating.