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Article #368Re: courtesy titles
From: Conor
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:32
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:32
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In article <3DC6A7AA.9DFDC3F1@cadence.com>, andrewm@cadence.com says... > > "I've been on the Internet in the UK since 1983." > According to the Jargon File, it began in 1969, started TCP/IP in 82 and > DNS in 83, so why is this so odd? > Most people generally think of the Internet as being WWW which didn't even exist until 1989. Because it was basically Usenet and E-Mail. Web browsers didn't really take off until some considerable time later when Tim Berners-Lee came up with the WWW which was in 1989. UK internet access up til 1992 in the UK basically consisted of Govt/University and online CONTENT PROVIDERS such as Compuserve which had WWW as an afterthought. A bit of reading: http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/bernerslee.html -- _________________________ Conor Turton conor_turton@hotmail.com ICQ:31909763 _________________________
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