Comments on: The History of the Internet http://blog-well.com/2009/01/07/the-history-of-the-internet/ Musings and things that amuse us Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dwight Jones http://blog-well.com/2009/01/07/the-history-of-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-4490 Dwight Jones Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:32 +0000 http://blog-well.com/?p=626#comment-4490 The main driver that brought us the Internet were bulletin boards, not govt sites, which flunked out trying to implement Telidon, Datex and Minitel etc.. The BBS sysops are forgotten, others claim the fame, but they did it. I was one and had a fractal imaging program before jpg's that could download an image in 7 seconds over a 14.4 modem in 256K colors. The main driver that brought us the Internet were bulletin boards, not govt sites, which flunked out trying to implement Telidon, Datex and Minitel etc..

The BBS sysops are forgotten, others claim the fame, but they did it. I was one and had a fractal imaging program before jpg’s that could download an image in 7 seconds over a 14.4 modem in 256K colors.

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