27 Apr
2024
27 Apr
'24
4:14 p.m.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive
bullet by going with
the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect,
IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels.
I was there. I remember X.400, and how NDS was going to be the directory
system that bound us all together in hell forever. I remember everything...
We missed living in that crap-sack universe by six months or so.
Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office so the
mammals were out of the bag and fruitfully multiplying long before the
rest of the world caught on and started forming committees to create
camel-shaped dinosaurs to perform the same functions. As a result most
of those things were fairly short-term distractions for most of the
internet as, for example, it quickly became evident that nobody was
going to pay postage on email haha.