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cvccvroomvroom on Oct 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley

80's or 90's open source? There was no effective internet. There were only BBSes and Compuserve. FOSS took off in the 00's.

gabeio on Oct 16, 2023 [–]

> 80's or 90's open source? There was no effective internet. There were only BBSes and Compuserve. FOSS took off in the 00's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

Initial release: 1978

Just because there was no effective internet doesn't mean computers didn't exist and people weren't working on projects together.

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