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 Sun, 20 May 2012 21:43:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alan Green http://blog-well.com/2009/01/07/the-history-of-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-9229 Alan Green Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:46:57 +0000 http://blog-well.com/?p=626#comment-9229 The Internet: the best thing CERN has produced until now. CERN has cost millions. The Internet: the best thing CERN has produced until now.
CERN has cost millions.

]]> 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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