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Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:39:00 -0400
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:21:00 PDT, "Paul M. Moriarty" said:
Well, I can't claim a .arpa, but I've been around 20+ years. It strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the latest breakthroughs with gopher. Because, in my experience, plain text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.
Highly unlikely, because even when it *was* a world of 7-bit ascii (and even *before* then, when 36 bit machines with 6/7/8/9 bit bytes walked the Net), they wanted to escape the 7-bit-ascii constraints: 0086 Proposal for a Network Standard Format for a Data Stream to Control Graphics Display. S.D. Crocker. January 1971. (Format: TXT=7117 bytes) (Updated by RFC0125) (Status: UNKNOWN) Yes, that *predates* this other RFC: 0097 First Cut at a Proposed Telnet Protocol. J.T. Melvin, R.W. Watson. February 1971. (Format: PDF=403375 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN) Mind you this was in the very early days of NCP, when the net had a limit of 256 hosts...
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