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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:38PM (#47617548)
> commenter above is talking about the enthusiast-populated internet of the late 80s/early 90s, at which point it still wasn't even clear if it was legal to use the internet for commercial purposes

Source? Not doubting. But I have a friend who was buying airline tickets through CompuServe in the late 80s/early 90s.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by hn_acc1 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:30PM (#47620450)
Compuserve was NOT the internet. Compuserve / Prodigy / GEnie were early versions of Facebook. They also inter-operated (email) for some period of time. IIRC.
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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by jasonfarnon on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:27PM (#47621533)
An important distinction, although I do remember AOL making a strong go at "branding" the internet by the late 90s.
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