@gerdesj (was: Re: Apparently ...)
No, I mean the mid 1980s. That's when international corporations started using what we now know as "TehIntraWebTubes" for transportation of data.
Prior to that, simple exploits based on as-shipped configuration was the norm in Uni and other research situations, but there wasn't really anything important online, so it didn't really matter. Try to remember, this was the time-frame when TCP/IP went from an open research network, built to research networking, to the publicly available, unreliable, and completely unsecurable cluster-fuck that TheGreatUnwashed[tm] latched onto to swap porn, cat pics, really bad videos, worse music, and the dreadful minutia of sad lives.
I fully expect the (not very)"social" media set to downvote this post in droves.