18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
11:47 a.m.
Dan Gahlinger wrote:
...
To give you some idea, the ISP I worked with in Sept
1994 had an ARIN user registration number 79.
Yes, the 79th person to register with ARIN. That's pretty damn EARLY!
Wikipedia says:
"ARIN opened its doors for business on 22 December 1997[1] after
incorporating on 18 April 1997"
So enough with your stupid jokes and mockery, this
isn't a scam or slight,
it's the real thing, speaking from a public perspective anyhow.
I don't think anybody has accused you of a scam, just of making claims
that are provably false.
Hey I was there in the mid to late 80's using
NA-Net, etc as well, but that WASN'T the internet.
And hey, I was sending "email" via university systems back in the mid to late
70's too, but that's not what we call "email" today.
there wasn't TCP then, at least where I was (It was Dec-net and PAX).
TCP has been around since at least 1981.
BTW I helped WRITE TCP-mail, the predecessor to
pine/elm, so I think I know a bit about
what I'm talking about.
You are talking about clients, not protocols. I have no doubt that
people were writing new email clients in 1990 or whatever. The original
message sounded like you were claiming the email protocol was developed
on a machine that wasn't available until many years after the protocol
had already been in use.