[rollei_list] Re: OT: Electronic Connectivity
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 17:28:04 -0400
iIF we are into entymology, its worth pointing out that the Internet, and the
World Wide web are different things. Its also worth pointing out that there
were earlier networks, Arpanet, and Bitnet, and various early systems based on
BBS type technologies.
I'm also aware of a very early network for astronomical data, called starnet,
and using PDP11 computers, but I can find no trace of this on the internet.
There were also some paid access systems at this time, I watched a hacker get
into tymnet once in the mid eighties, this was a very big early system, but it
seems to have disappeared from conventional histories of the founding of the
web. Popular history is of course chauvinistic and partisan, on this side of
the pond the commonly accepted meme is that the net started in CERN with mosaic
being the breakthrough technology.
All the best
Laurence Cuffe
On Thursday, May 06, 2010, at 04:37PM, "Marc James Small"
<marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>At 04:26 PM 5/6/2010, Allen Zak wrote:
> >
> >Neither this video, nor others like it I have viewed, substantiates the
> >allegation that he claimed to have "invented" the internet. There is a
> >big difference between inventing something, a technical process, and
> >his phrase "took the initiative in creating," an enabling procedure.
>
>The two words are given as synonyms in Roget,
>Allen. And, if you wish, there is an adequate
>history of both words to show that they have been
>used interchangeably for centuries. Both words
>spring from Latin and the two were used as
>synonyms at the time of the Late Republic, so Roget has it right.
>
>Algore just overspoke and lacked the character to
>immediately acknowledge this publicly. His
>Kool-Aid Kooks have been trying to waffle-word a
>defense for his blunder, but such claims just have no traction.
>
>Game, set, and match.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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