In
<E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4863@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local>,
on 07/24/2012
at 08:00 PM, David Stokes <[email protected]> said:
>In other words, if everything had happened ten years later we would
>now be around the same point we were 10 years ago.
No. Starting ten years latter is your concept, not mine.
>No one could have foreseen the problems the Internet would bring
>until there was an Internet.
The Internet started with the ARPAnet-MILNET split. Not only could
people forsee the problems of uncontrolled commercialization, they
*did* forsee those problems and their warnings were ignored.
>Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet
Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd be running,
e.g., OS/2, MacOS, Linux.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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