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Internet memories
Phil Started conversation Oct 21, 1999
What a thing the internet is taking over from all before it and no one knows where it's going, but it's sure going there fast.
I can first remember being shown this new fangled program called Mosaic, a graphical browser for the World Wide Web and thinking that there wasn't a lot about to look at 
in 1992. Now look what's going on. You can't move without seeing the internet on adverts, or more specifically the web.
The internet isn't just the web
It's email, used all the time by what now seems to be everybody, even my mum uses it occasionally
It's ftp servers, even though most people will download stuff through the browser. When I were a lad....mumble, mumble, archie, mumble, mumble, gopher, mumble, mumble.
It is also the web, but the web isn't the be all and end all of it.
Who knows where it will go and what people will do with it in the future I don't but it's sure that it's going to be interesting.
Internet memories
Phil Posted Oct 21, 1999
Oh yeah, just found a copy of an old document on the internet - may be the wrong place to put this link but I'll try and find a better place soon.
Zen and the art of the internet, version 1.0, 1992, B. Keyhoe
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html
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Phil Posted Oct 21, 1999
Never have subjected myself to the tree email clients (Pine and Elm)
as I started with text based stuff on the old uni VAX cluster and then used the Sun mail client that came with open look (and still use it today as well) or the simple command line mail utility.
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Grendel Posted Oct 22, 1999
I know Pine stands for Pine Is Not Elm (in the good old Unix recursive acronym tradition), but what does Elm stand for? Elm something Mail I would guess but what is the "L"?
Just curious.
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bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran Posted Oct 22, 1999
'El'ectronic 'M'ail
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 22, 1999
I heard a news article about the 30th Anniversary of the Internet yesterday morning - the most interesting bit was that only two characters of the first message got through before one of the machines crashed! Some things never change 
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bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran Posted Oct 24, 1999
You mean they had Microsoft operating systems back then????
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Phil Posted Oct 24, 1999
Ok then here goes, this information is taken from http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html and so any mistakes are theirs not mine 
The first packets sent across the four node network were sent from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute. The system crashed on the letter G of LOGIN, so yes nothing changes there.
The machines at either end of the 50kbps link were UCLA, SDS SIGMA 7, SEX and at SRI, SDS940/Genie.
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- 1: Phil (Oct 21, 1999)
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- 4: Phil (Oct 21, 1999)
- 5: Grendel (Oct 22, 1999)
- 6: bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran (Oct 22, 1999)
- 7: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 22, 1999)
- 8: bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran (Oct 24, 1999)
- 9: Phil (Oct 24, 1999)
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