18 - Histoire de l’Internet, l’Internet dans l’histoire
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Benjamin THIERRY
« Revolution 0.1. », Users and Communities of Users in the First Age of Personal Computers and Networks for a the General Public (1978-90)
Le Temps des médias n°18, Printemps 2012, p. 54-64.
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In France, the first consumer uses of computers have thrived in the 1980s with the family computer and telematics. New forms of sociability grew, resorting to a variety of media. Many social interactions used the print press, fanzines, networks and associations. This first melting-pot of practices and representations included specific uses, such as the practice of Basic, the first word processors and electronic mail. It contributed to the development on an "interactive screen culture" which reinvented itself with the growth of the Internet fifteen years later. This gives an example of continuity in the history of uses of technology, beyond technological changes.