> Early internet systems--I'm not sure where to draw the line between > Usenet, ARPANet and Internet [...]
I would say that the Internet was the collection of hosts/networks supporting (and assuming) more-or-less[%] real-time host-to-host connectivity. [%] RFC 1149, anyone? :-) Thus, a host on dialup UUCP, even if the call is nailed up, doesn't count. Of course, I am hardly an authority in this regard. > When I added email Internet communication, I used a package for > Windows called UUPC, which was pretty much a UUCP clone. Others > simply signed up to a service, such as Compuserve. Indeed. And, for a significant time, I too could mostly get mail to and from the Internet, but I would not say that any of the computers I routinely used during that time were on the Internet. (For those with pathalias data from back then, mcgill-vision was my home site....) > The Internet is not the World-Wide-Web. _So_ true. It really annoys me when an organization advertises Internet connectivity and actually delivers half-assed crippled Web-only connectivity. (I've given serious thought to building an IP-over-HTTP transport just to deal with them.) > I do miss the web-less Internet in some respects. Oh, man, so do I. So do I. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B