On Jul 14, 2014, at 08:17 , Dave Crocker <d...@dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 7/12/2014 3:19 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
>> On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:
>>> or are you equating shell access with isp?  that would be novel.  unix
>>> shell != internet.
>> 
>> You mean when you sat at a unix shell using a dumb terminal on a
>> machine attached to the internet in, say, 1986 you didn't think you
>> were "on the internet"?
> 
> 
> An question with more nuance than most folk tend to realize:
> 
>   To Be "On" the Internet
> 
>   March, 1995
>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1775

But the part that will really bend your mind is when you realize that there is 
no such thing as "THE Internet".

Owen

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