On 1/10/06, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/10/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, credit where credit's due... Al *INVENTED* the Internet! ;) LOL > > > > (You had a mailreader in the BBS days?!? I remember lame little forums > in > > CNet over a 300 baud moden via CGTerm, and I was happy to have it!) > > Though, I wasn't glad for the phone bills that went with it :) > > I do remember when Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW. Back around > 1989/1990, there was an article circulating the BBS networks about > "hooking all the world's computers together into a world wide web". At > the time, I thought it was lunatic fringe, but I dutifully forwarded > the message along to a hypertext forum I managed, and then along to > the rest of the Fidonet background. At first, the SGML mavens in our > group dissed HTML as amateurish. A year later, they were giving lofty > advice :)
Pah. This new-fangled www stuff. Anyone remember Project Xanadu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu -- Martin Cooper -Ted. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
