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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 

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