On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:21:00 PDT, "Paul M. Moriarty" said: > Well, I can't claim a .arpa, but I've been around 20+ years. It > strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old > timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the > latest breakthroughs with gopher. Because, in my experience, plain > text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.
Highly unlikely, because even when it *was* a world of 7-bit ascii (and
even *before* then, when 36 bit machines with 6/7/8/9 bit bytes walked
the Net), they wanted to escape the 7-bit-ascii constraints:
0086 Proposal for a Network Standard Format for a Data Stream to
Control Graphics Display. S.D. Crocker. January 1971. (Format:
TXT=7117 bytes) (Updated by RFC0125) (Status: UNKNOWN)
Yes, that *predates* this other RFC:
0097 First Cut at a Proposed Telnet Protocol. J.T. Melvin, R.W.
Watson. February 1971. (Format: PDF=403375 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
Mind you this was in the very early days of NCP, when the net had a limit
of 256 hosts...
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