14 Jan
2005
14 Jan
'05
1:40 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
Perhaps... I think the real pressure was a social one. BBS's (I ran one
on a hacked WWIV(?) for a while in Japan), AOL etc. and corporate email
gave people a desire to find ways to communicate. Once social pressure
built, the path of least resistance was taken IMHO.
Yep. Once TCP/IP really took off, the rest, as
they say, was history.
But the precursor to all of that was the fact that it stopped
being government funded; only non-commercial uses were allowed. It's also simply *NOT TRUE* that industry created
the internet,
like many of them fabricate; it was quite well developed loooong
before business got there.
I never said industry did: quite the opposite if anything. Industry
*used* the Internet, and thereby raised awareness of it.