13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
10:32 a.m.
On Jan 13, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
Regular folk with Windows/Mac machines were signing up
for these
accounts, not just tech weenies, for all the reasons that email was
popular.
Not only that, but because of Windows/Mac TCP/IP, corporations really
jumped on the bandwagon too, and they allowed more liberal access to
the Internet. It was like people suddenly discovered the Internet, and
in the space of a couple of years, everyone was doing email. The WWW
really helped to push things along too... URL's and the browsers made
it much easier to do things, than say, remembering to ftp to
gatekeeper.dec.com. Linux had nothing to do with most of this... most
of the early web servers were on other platforms.
You want a technical change to point to? I'd point
to TCP/IP coming
to Windows and the Mac.
Yep. Once TCP/IP really took off, the rest, as they say, was history.