Thread:Trope Workshop talk:Older Than Internet/Maybe it would be a good idea to choose a title with a less ambiguous starting date/reply (4)

Actually, I really am going to recommend September 1993 as the dividing line here. This was the first time that the general public was truly exposed to the open internet -- the month that America Online allowed access to UseNet (see Eternal September). This was also the month of the first beta release of NSCA Mosaic; the first full release happened in November. I can't think of a brighter cultural dividing line than that -- the opening of ports 80 and 119.

Not to mention that this is the year that B5 started, being the first television series to have a creator-fan interaction over the Net.