From: | "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM> |
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Subject: | Breif History of Telecommunications, damnit! |
Date: | Tue, 26 Jul 1994 12:59:24 -0400 |
> > 2. Ivy calls the Internet (or whatever) a BBS.
> > 2a. People respond: This place is changed from a BBS, don't call it one.
> > 2b(or not?). Ivy says: I'll call it a BBS if I want.
>
> Internet was NEVER and will NEVER be a BBS!!!!!!!
Correct as usual, Lord Vader.
The first networked computers were at M.I.T. in the late fifties,
when some students played a practical joke by running a single two-lead
wire between two computers. They then brought a friend in to try playing
chess against one of the computers. In actuality, there was a human
playing aganist him from the other computer.
Jumping forwards a number of years, ARPAnet was started in 1969.
Eye-witness accounts tell that ARPAnet was nothing at all like the
current Internet, or even BITNET (which is a much more direct descendant
of ARPAnet than the Internet is.)
The Internet is truly nothing but a kludgy mish-mosh of supposedly
standardaized communications protocols. When you add in BITNET, UUCP, and
not-even-trying-to-be-standardized software like that found on FIDOnet,
WWIVnet, and services like America OnLine, the mish-mosh becomes even
worse. (Interestingly, USENET is generally more standardized.)
Ivy, your view of the SHADOWRN mailing list as a BBS started out
because it is obscured by whatever WWIV software you're using. It has
then been colored because I disagreed with you, which apparently is
something you are not equipped to deal with except through continued
arguing.
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| J.D. Falk | "The time is gone, the song is over
| jdfalk@****.com | Thought I'd something more to say."
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