3 Nov
2009
3 Nov
'09
12:27 p.m.
Rich Alderson wrote:
So not the origins of the Internet, most likely, but
rather of the World
Wide Waste^H^H^H^Heb?
Just a couple of comments there:
- The HEP community was very much involved with pushing networking developments
way before the WWW, due to the communications needs of a relatively small
community working at a small number of installations (accelerators), but
spread at great distance all around the globe.
- It may not be the origins of the Internet at the lower levels as we techies
like to think of it, but I would say the WWW was very much a part of 'making'
the Internet (or 'Net, if you prefer), in it's prevalence and as a widespread
social phenomenon.