Prior to digital unix, there was tru unix, (both for alpha processors) and prior to that was Ultrix (for vax processors)
So we had an old joke back at Digital:
Digital Unix, formerly called Tru Unix
running on Alpha, formerly called AXP
from Digital Equipment, formerly called DEC.
Sigh. When you have a company that's more worried about changing names and maintaining some silly brand identity (we were supposed to spell it DIGITAL, and the font color was supposed to be ecru), you know something's really wrong.
It has been quite a discussion on who really was the first IP based ISP. Mozcom certainly claims to be the first, but in all honesty, Patrick Deakin and I recall that Portal Inc might have preceded Mozcom by a few months as well, via a dial-up SLIP to DLSU. The tech guy at that time was David Dizon.
I can at least attest to the fact that they were indeed using IP. We had a private subnet behind the firewall, and the authentication system was Kerberos. As to who's first...seems to be a common source of argument in Pinoy discussions, so I'll skip that.
Speaking of Mozcom, I spent two days with them and then I decided it just wasn't for me. I made it up to Dr. Gan by introducing my friend Karlo Soriano to him. Karlo went on to do the marketing work in the Visayas.
Dave Dizon now works for SMART.
Lynx if I'm not mistaken came out only around 2000. Well, in the middle of 1994, there was a widespread program called Mosaic (pre-cursor of Netscape) which really made web pages graphical (and magical during those days). But there is a text based browser during that time of which the name escapes me. However, there were other similar text based services, not necessarily on the world wide web, like wais, archie, etc...
According to livinginternet.com:
The University of Kansas had written a hypertext browser independently of the web, called Lynx, used to distribute campus information. A student named Lou Montulli added an Internet interface to the program, and released the web browser Lynx 2.0 in March, 1993. Lynx quickly became the preferred web browser for character mode terminals without graphics, and remains in use today. Resources include the Browser.org Lynx page, the ISC Lynx page, and the Lynx User Guide.
So it might really have been earlier.
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Dominique Gerald M. Cimafranca
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Dumaguete City
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