20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166302/20_years_ago_today_birth_of_the_dotcom_era.html
from above: "In those days, the Internet consisted of regional networks, who were mostly non-profit cooperatives, and the government funded 'NSFNet' backbone which linked them up," writes Templeton, a friend of many years' standing. ... snip .... misc. past posts mentioning NSFNet: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet and some old NSFNet related email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet for other drift ... SLAC (slac vm370 system) first webserver outside cern/europe http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml GML had been invented at the science center in 1969 and then standardized as SGML in the late 70s ... misc. past posts mentioning GML, SGML, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submail.html#sgml CMS script command did document formatting using "dot" commands ... somewhat from similar/earlier CTSS command. After, GML was invented, support for GML tag processing was added to script. Waterloo had done a clone of the cms command ... webpage tracking evolution from SGML into HTML at CERN: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/ above includes references to Waterloo SCRIPT GML User's Guide.
