[IP] : Setting history straight: So, who really did invent the Internet?
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Sent: 2/5/'05, 9:20
Ian:
The "Internet" that many people care about isn't really captured by the things
you list as the key ingredients.
Indeed, if the application you describe -- people communicating through
computers over an connection of networks (i.e. internetworked email) -- was all
there wa
s to it, then I suspect that few of the books you reference would have ever
been written and most email would still be exchanged on AOL.
If you ask the question, "Why do people care that there is an Internet" you
might come up with some different definitions and some different answers.
It strikes me that applications that made the Internet "important" enough to be
widely noticed rely on simple networked access to files -- across operating syst
ems -- which some have called Network Computing.
Actually, for the record, some have said that I "coined" that term in the title
of a report I wrote as a Wall Street analyst in August 1988 -- "Network Computin
g: The Next Wave."
Best,
Mark Stahlman
New York City
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