Re: Testing my new newsreader...

On Aug 23, 5:12 pm, didgerman <didger...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Uncle Dave wrote:
On Aug 23, 1:53 pm, "mg" <nosp...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"didgerman" <didger...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Dave Keegan wrote:
On Aug 23, 4:36 am, "mg" <nosp...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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In message <slXyi.24475$4A1.16...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mg
<nosp...@xxxxxxx> writes
Test post... lol
Test Match Rugby, it is ruined.
Hows that for netiquette devlin, you kilt wearing nancy.
Well done. You can now turn to page 2 of "The internet for dummies".
Yeah, coz I'm so new to the internet, lol.
No, it's called internet for Dummies not Newbies.
I'm afraid you proved Pete's point for him...
Keegan...
I believe it was mg that once said MIT invented the internet, or
something.
Whatever it was, I've always known his IT skills amount to posting on
RSRU, after that it goes tits up....
No, very wrong. So wrong that it's not worth correcting.

lol

UD

Indeed, our mg persisted that the web wasn't invented at CERN.....

Well, it depends doesn't it? If you recognise that what makes the web
works is hyperlinks those were in use some time before the web and BT
apparently applied for a patent for them in the 1970s. The web was
the coming together of a number of things and without the internet it
wouldn't have worked.

As to where the internet came from, it's definitely not as simple as
people (e.g. in Wikipedia) think and depends on how you define
"network" and whether you're a yank or a European. For example, SITA
had an international network by 1950 and the world's first worldwide
packet switching network by 1969. I would argue that telecomunicatons
networks are just as apposite to the history of the internet as
academic ones. As ever, the really clever inventions will be
overlooked - nobody knows who invented the wheel do they?

The academics had the time and inclination to do things for non-
commercial reasons and - more importantly were not reluctant to share
information which businessed were reluctant to do. The idea of a
company linking networks even with business partners was anathema even
by the time that such things as JANET and USENET came along.

Here endeth today's lesson.

UD

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