In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the > > case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. > > >Depends very much on what you define as "the internet". > > I mean the large network running internet protocols. > >And that depends on what you define as an internet protocol. In my >book, NNTP is a "internet" protocol, and was so from day one. Yes, that's right, NNTP is an internet protocol. I'm not sure why you bring it up though. I think we agree on which network I am referring to by "the internet". > Of course, nowadays most newsgroup traffic goes over the internet, > but that was not originally the case. > >Sure it was, but this ofcourse depends on how you define the >"internet". :-) If we define the internet as agreed above, newsgroup traffic did not originally go over it. -- Richard _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
