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Article #372Re: courtesy titles
From: Craig Cockburn
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:08
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:08
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In message <CheetahPRO_v1.16-n4_64113@blackcat.demon.co.uk>, Mike
Dickson <mike@blackcat.?.demon.?.co.?.uk.invalid> writes
>In article <98f13f40.0211040801.7ce3ab94@posting.google.com>
>emas_a@lycos.co.uk wrote...
>
>> I'd love to see you explain this bit:
>> "I've been on the Internet in the UK since 1983."
>
>What's to explain? Or do you think that 'the Internet' is the Worldwide
>Web and nothing else?
>
There are plenty websites around commemorating the start date of the
Internet as being the first ping between two machines on 2nd September
1969, although it wasn't called the Internet or used Internet Protocol
(IP) until much later.
--
Craig Cockburn ("coburn"). SiliconGlen.com Ltd. http://SiliconGlen.com
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