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Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
From: Jim Burwell <jimb () jsbc cc>
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:22:36 -0700
On 4/4/2010 17:20, Barry Shein wrote:
I still believe that had as much to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union as the million other politicians who wish to take credit. It's arguable that UUCP (and Usenet, email, etc that it carried) was one of the most powerful forces for change in modern history. All you needed was some freely available software, a very modest computer, a modem, a phone line, and like so many things in life, a friend. And then once you "got it", you looked towards connecting to the "real" internet, you knew just what you were after.
I agree. I remember back in the 80s when I first got access to UseNet and UUCP based email thinking and saying things like "the net will change the world", because for the first time people from all over the globe were communicating fairly openly and inexpensively, and somehow the internet and UUCP seemed to come in "under the radar" back then. I had more than a few people scoff at me for thinking that way though. :-)
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- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?, (continued)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jim Mercer (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Randy Bush (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Barry Shein (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jim Burwell (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jorge Amodio (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Robert Brockway (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Vadim Antonov (Apr 05)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Joe Greco (Apr 03)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Larry Sheldon (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Steven Bellovin (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Steven Bellovin (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Lyndon Nerenberg (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Jaap Akkerhuis (Apr 04)
- Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? Bruce Williams (Apr 04)