18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
1:13 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
no, I didn't misunderstand. perhaps it was the
last one Einar had. But
it was what he created Email on. Check the Wiki for him.
The internet didn't become a really public thing until around 1994.
. . .
So go ahead, continue making your immature little jokes about sneakers,
if someone is serious on the list, drop me a note.
I'm serious. You are full of it.
You are off by a full decade.
By 1994, Netscape replaced Mosaic, Cantor & Siegel sent their "Green
Card" SPAM, and damn near every Walmart shopper knew about the internet.
Those are not the BIRTH of the internet, those are its pubescent antics.
Check the dates for Usenet (1980), FTP (1985), Gopher(1991), even WWW
(1993).
Watch Hyperland for the point of view of what internet users in 1990
expected in the near future.
E-mail was in use onf CTSS in 1965.
My first use of e-mail was in 1969 (NASA).
I didn't send e-mail from a home computer until 1979. (Source, Compuserve)
There are plenty of email discussion groups similar to this one that are
older than YOUR perception of the birth of the internet, albeit many have
changed servers a few times.
As to your having written predecessor to PINE, . . .
PINE is easily traceable back to 1989.
PINE is variously backronymed to Pine Is Not Elm and Pine Is Nearly Elm.
ELM's first release was 1986.
Sorry, but the fact that YOU and my grandmother weren't aware of the
internet until 1995 does NOT mean that it didn't exist then.
Grow up.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com