Subj : Re: computers
To   : Malvinas
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 16:36:22

On 19 Jul 2024 at 01:19a, Malvinas pondered and said...
 
 Ma>  te> URLs debuted with the web in 1991.  We were definitely using
 Ma>
 Ma> a) Who's "We"?? b) "definitely"? What were 'you' using URLs for?

Uh, me and other folks who had access to the Internet in the
early 90s?

 Ma>  te> them with NCSA Mosaic and Lynx by 1993 (I can remember that
 Ma>  te> it took approximately all night to compile Mosaic on a Sun
 Ma>  te> SPARCstation 2 with a, what, 20MHz sun4c processor and 8ish
 Ma>  te> megs of RAM...).  The CERN site was, of course, already
 Ma>  te> accessible, and there were a lot of web sites floating around
 Ma>  te> at that time.  
 Ma>
 Ma> Really?? 'a lot of web sites', in 1993?? That's why 'over night' people
 Ma> dropped BBSs to the floor and ran for the hills towards *www ISPs?

I don't really know about BBSes around then.  I'd more or
less stopped using them, because I had access to the Internet,
and it was far more interesting.

This was not common; getting onto the network around then
required a little bit of juice, or some money.

But I guess I don't see how that's relevant to your earlier
point I initially responded to, which was something about
the Internet "starting" in 1995 and taking over from CompuServe.
None of that is correct.  The Internet "started" in 1983,
based on research stretching back to the 1960s.  CompuServe
was a completely separate thing.

 Ma> backwards. I'm not trying to prove you're lying or anything, I just want
 Ma> to get the facts straight, 'cause you seem to have a lot of legit info,
 Ma> but I don't know why, there's something about your story ('personal
 Ma> experience') that kinda feels like made fit forcefully...
 Ma> Might be just me, still wondering...

You made a claim about the history of the Internet.  That
claim was wrong.  I gave you the story as I lived it.  I
didn't make any claims about BBSes or anything in that; you
seem to have invented that yourself.

You can believe me or not, but the history is out there and
easily accessible; you can verify the timelines for yourself,
if you'd like.

Long story short, the Internet didn't "start" in 1995, it
certainly had nothing to do with "taking over" from CompuServe.
If you believe otherwise, the onus is really on you to provide
evidence, since it's a pretty extraordinary claim.

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