Subj : Re: computers
To   : Malvinas
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 06:20:56

On 19 Jul 2024 at 02:01p, Malvinas pondered and said...
 
 Ma>  te> Long story short, the Internet didn't "start" in 1995, it
 Ma>  te> certainly had nothing to do with "taking over" from CompuServe.
 Ma>  te> If you believe otherwise, the onus is really on you to provide
 Ma>  te> evidence, since it's a pretty extraordinary claim.
 Ma> 
 Ma> What I meant by 'the internet started in 1995' is that the common public
 Ma> adoption of *www as a means of communication and service consumption
 Ma> took off around 1995 and not 1993.

The world wide web started in 1991.  "Common Public Adoption" is
a rather different thing.  Those of us using the Internet before
that period of "common public adoption" were using the web rather
earlier.

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