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Article #370Re: courtesy titles
From: Richard Tobin
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:12
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:12
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In article <MPG.1830cdb874a0ef4798a23c@news.claranews.com>, Conor <conor_turton@hotmail.com> wrote: >Most people generally think of the Internet as being WWW which didn't >even exist until 1989. That's because they're wrong. >Because it was basically Usenet and E-Mail. A funny way of looking at it. Usenet existed quite independently of the Internet, and until the late 1980s was mostly transferred by UUCP. I was using the Internet for FTP long before I used it for mail and news. -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. FreeBSD rules!
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