23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
10:26 a.m.
On 10/23/2015 09:37 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
TCP/IP would be 33, not 43 years ago. The internet was
certainly not
"made possible" by TCP/IP. It was inevitable that eventually there
would be movementS towards standardization of protocols on the
arpanet. They could have done much worse than TCP/IP!
Yeah, I had quite a number of problems with the original post also.
Early internet systems--I'm not sure where to draw the line between
Usenet, ARPANet and Internet exactly often employed nothing more than
POTS networking, using nothing more than UUCP or similar methods.
When I added email Internet communication, I used a package for Windows
called UUPC, which was pretty much a UUCP clone. Others simply signed
up to a service, such as Compuserve.
The Internet is not the World-Wide-Web. Indeed, I have a PC package and
book titled "Internet Starter Kit" and there's no mention of a web browser.
I do miss the web-less Internet in some respects. People were more
polite back then--at least in their written communication.
--Chuck