From: | Darth Vader <j07c@***.UNI-BREMEN.DE> |
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Subject: | final comment on Internet |
Date: | Wed, 27 Jul 1994 18:16:15 +0100 |
> different from a BBS? It's bigger, and it runs on bigger computers but
> it still works the same way. Maybe it's the dedicated lines? Nah, the
> people running home BBSs just can't afford those. It's more modern? It
> put a lot of BBSs out of business? IS that good? This thing _is_ the ne
> plus ultra of BBSs, that I will admit.
Well by saying this you are practically implying that all computer
networks are more or less BBSs. BBSs are a form of computer networking
(a very lame and underdeveloped form, but a form nonetheless), and not
the essence of networking. Internet is for us in this day and age the
'essence of networking'.
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