On 5/10/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm old enought to remember before web browsers when I was in college.
It wasn't *that* long ago. :)
Arpanet was originally for government and research. No commercial traffic was supposed to travel on it.
Right. Back then, the "ISP" would have been the university, or some government agency. As you note, things were even more restricted back then. No commercial use (in theory), and a somewhat exclusive nature. The current idea that you can plunk down some cash and get an Internet connection came latter. Back then, you needed to "know someone", so to speak. If the local admins decided your usage was getting in the way of the "real users", I'd guess they would probably just disable your access.
It took faith to buy something before eBay!
Still does. ;-) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
