JdeBPI've had updating this on the to-do list for a little while, now.
It's a shame that I only learned of Don Rickter's existence posthumously.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦With no lookup, I'll go Ceefax as I know that in the 80s I was editing pages for Ceefax for The Min of Ag, and we all know that hoi polloi got 'online' in 1993 via AOL, causing Usenet to experience The September That Never Ended.
Mind you, students and geeks like me were online earlier than that, so probably a trick question!
Not a trick, and you were right but for the wrong reason.
The BBC demonstrated a prototype Ceefax on Tomorrow's World in October 1972, and it was in field trials in 1973. The Internet was invented in 1973, and Stanford, BBN, UCL, et al. were pushing packets around by 1975.
New pence, Ceefax, ABBA, and (according to its inventor) the pronoun "xe" all pre-date the Internet.
https://jdebp.uk/FGA/sex-neutral-pronouns.html#ABBA
#history #Internet #Ceefax #ABBA #Decimalization #EnglishLanguage