Subj : Re: computers
To   : Malvinas
From : tenser
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 06:23:00

On 19 Jul 2024 at 02:12p, Malvinas pondered and said...
 
 Ma>  te> People still seem to be very confused as to what the Internet
 Ma>  te> actually is; it's just the collection of publicly inter-connected
 Ma>  te> TCP/IP networks.  _Applications_ of the Internet, like the
 Ma>  te> web, etc, are all different.
 Ma> 
 Ma> It's more than 'just the collection of publicly inter-connected
 Ma> networks'. It's a cultural, social, communicational and commercial
 Ma> event, that changed humanity for good and *that* didn't start at 1993,
 Ma> but rather some time later, around 1995, I'd say. I do remember that
 Ma> too, because I lived *that*. Malvinas.

Commercial ISPs existed well before 1993.  Look up UUNET, for
instance.

Perhaps in your personal experience you started hearing about it
in 1995, but that doesn't mean that's when it started.

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