[dba-Tech] Access vs. .NET

On 18 Nov 2004 at 10:42, John W. Colby wrote:

> I don't have a clue where you got into that net.  At a university?  I worked
> at many companies and NOBODY had any access to "the internet", nobody I
> talked to knew anything about it, never mentioned it etc.  There were no
> ISPs that I am aware of.  I have just done a scan for history of the
> internet and find that the term itself was codified in 1995, at which time
> there were roughly 50,000 networks on the internet; in 1993 only about
> 19,000 networks attached.
> 

The WWW is NOT the Internet.   In September 1993, the WWW accounted for 
0.1% of Internet traffic. At  that time it was used mainly for email, and 
for Usenet which was really developed in the late 80s  
.
I was connected through BRISBUG in Brisbane, Australia. (Brisbane PC Users 
Group founded in 1985)  before "the September that never ended" (google it 
if you don't know what that means)

It was dial up to a unix box.  For the cost of a local phone (untimed) I 
had access to the world - admittedly fairly slowly.

There were already many thousands of news groups including a number similar 
to this list dedicated to programming in various languages. As well as all 
the alt.binaries of course :-)

The early WWW was also already available. Initially I was browsing the web 
with Lynx (text based) and then discovered Mosaic.  First time I found 
myself connected to and reading material on a server in another country I 
had the feeling that this thing might take off :-).







-- 
Stuart