6 Dec
2011
6 Dec
'11
12:37 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
madodel wrote:
I don't think you can include UUCP as "internet access", though it is/was
a networking system.
I would argue that the Internet was built upon the Internet Protocol which
was initial described in a research paper published in May 1974 (Cerf and
Kahn), though it wasn't in it's current form at that time. TCP and IP were
described as a single protocol.
RCF8 describes Arpanet in 1969, but I don't have a copy of it. It is my
understanding Arpanet was a completely different protocol, and the
Internet was built on the wiring of Arpanet, but little else.
Of course, my memory could be completely flawed in all of this too.
Clint
And what was the first operating system to have
builtin support for
internet access? Did Windows for Workgroups have this or was that just LAN
networking? OS/2 Warp had dial up internet access for IBM's ISP as well as
a SLIP dialer for other ISPs, when released in 1994, but not a full TCP/IP
stack until Warp Connect in 1995. I assume Unix, Linux, AppleOS or AmigaOS
must have had this prior to that? I remember all those damn AOL floppy
disks for all the windows users. FORMAT A: was a good use for them.
I used PPP (or it might have been SLIP) on Ultrix LONG before 1995. And it
also makes a difference as to what you mean by "internet access". UUCP could
fall into that criterion, and has been built-into certain operating systems
for a *very* long time.
Peace... Sridhar