Re: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003

Joe, I was on the net before the web and I never did use IRC.
 
Remember Gopher? telnet? e-mail? Pine, Elm, and Minuet?  finger?  ftp?  
 
All of these were widely used for many things prior to Mosaic, and were used
by many people.
 
 
 
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:28:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003
 
Joe Pluta wrote:
> IMHO, prior to the Web, the Internet was primarily IRC chats and other
> murkier business. In fact, not unlike the IRC is today <grin>. It was
> MOSAIC, and thus the Web, that brought the Internet to its current
> acceptance, and I would argue it was the Windows version of Mosaic that
did
> it, not to mention Netscape and IE.
 
Well, not to be argumentative, but I think that USENET was a natural 
stepping stone from the international BBSs, like FIDO, which were 
providing message and file exchange "for the masses." Mosaic certainly 
put a new interface on the net and accelerated the growth.
 
> Joe