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The internet apolitical? When what where... Before DNS?

Since DNS is didn't go live until 1984, and didn't hit Windows until 1987, pretty much.

I was thinking pre-web. When most personal communication over the internet was via e-mail, usenet, and finger. I don't remember ever seeing politics on Gopher, but I could have just missed that.

> I was thinking pre-web. When most personal communication over the internet was via e-mail, usenet, and finger.

Even aside from overtly political newsgroups like talk.politics.misc, and talk.abortion, politics was all over Usenet.

Maybe not political debates per se, but I definitely remember many posters' political views being easy to decipher behind their USENET posts.

In the late 90s, parts of Usenet and IRC made modern Twitter look like a polite lunch date with your accountant.

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