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axpy90611/04/20251 replyview on HN

> the internet in 1988

60k computers ( mostly at institutions ) in 20 countries


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sedatk11/04/2025

Everything was slower though. Turkey as a whole country had one 9600bps link to Bitnet at the time. Internet was accessed through Bitnet gateways. Systems (CPUs and I/O in general) were also much slower.

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