18 Jul
2008
18 Jul
'08
11:59 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:33:36PM -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
I remember having to sign a piece of paper so we could use the entire
"_I_nternet". How things have changed.
The internet
didn't become a really public thing until around 1994.
Sure it existed in various forms, but when you talk about the "Internet"
(Capital "I"), the public wasn't aware of it or using it until late 1994.
Wow, hair splitting EXTREME!
If you count the creation of the _I_nternet as the point at which the
academic networks went public in the early/mid 1990s, well that all --
Will, ex william at ans.net
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