[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

John,

>> My sisters would abandon the internet like rats on a sinking ship. <<

I'm going to tell! You compared your sisters to rats!

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov-18-2004 3:08 PM
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET
> 
> Of course you are right, html and the www is just a part of the 
> internet,
> but so too is the fact that every one of my sisters is online, as well 
> as
> virtually every company in the world.  The www for all intents and 
> purposes
> IS the internet now.  Take that away and what would you have left?  My
> sisters would abandon the internet like rats on a sinking ship.
> 
> In any event, according to the history I came up with, the internet had 
> less
> that 20 thousand networks connected together around the entire world in
> 1990.  When you dialed in to CompuServe, you were just hitting a server 
> or a
> bunch of servers.  In fact in the early days CompuServe had to go into 
> many
> of the cities around the country and set up their own servers, get them 
> on
> the internet just so that they could take the phone calls coming in the
> modems.
> 
> Without a doubt, 95% of what you did on CompuServe never left their 
> servers
> (other than email).
> 
> Nowadays John Colby has (or had anyway) an IIS server serving up web 
> pages.
> And there are tens if not hundreds of millions of such servers.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com