COMPUTE! Issue 42, November 1983

TL;DR — A home-computing magazine explaining telecommunications to people who had never been online.

Issue 42, Vol. 5 No. 11, November 1983, $2.50. Cover feature: Telecommunications: How To Get Started.

This is what it looked like when going online had to be explained from first principles to an audience with a home computer and no idea what a modem was for.

As a primary source it is better than any retrospective: the assumptions, the prices, and the things that needed spelling out are all right there on the page.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

100 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.