nanog mailing list archives
Re: legacy /8
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:03:41 -0700
Owen DeLong wrote:
It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected to the internet. It was expected that most things connecting to the internet would be minicomputers and mainframes.
It took some visionary and creative thinking to "come up" with the internet. But given such a train of thought the idea of everyone being connected isn't such a wild idea. I can imagine it'd be almost a given.
Although if I get the time frame right in those days you had 2 camps, those (ibm, dec...) who believed that there was no need for home computers and you only needed a few (hundred?) thousand big mainframes and minicomputers and those (commodore, apple...) who believed (rightfully so) there was going to be a big future and demand for home computers.
So I guess depending on what "camp" you were in, it's not that strange to not envision all these household computers being interconnected.
Greetings, Jeroen
Current thread:
- Re: legacy /8, (continued)
- Re: legacy /8 Larry Sheldon (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Chris Grundemann (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Owen DeLong (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Lamar Owen (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Owen DeLong (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Cutler James R (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Jeroen van Aart (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Andrew Gray (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Owen DeLong (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 bmanning (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Cutler James R (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Jeroen van Aart (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Jim Burwell (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Jeffrey Lyon (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Leen Besselink (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Roland Perry (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Zaid Ali (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 William Warren (Apr 11)
- Re: legacy /8 Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 11)
- Re: legacy /8 Dobbins, Roland (Apr 11)
- Re: legacy /8 Jeroen van Aart (Apr 02)
- Re: legacy /8 Owen DeLong (Apr 04)