Hi Thomas Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:38:04 PM, you wrote:
TF> The internet was designed for plain-text emails only. MIME attachments TF> (allowing HTML) was added much later and under much protest. Check it TF> out on the internet. The internet was not designed *for* email at all. The ARPANET, its predecessor, was meant to be a US DoD network that could survive a nuclear attack. If you mean that the initial conception did not involve MIME etc., then that's correct. But claiming that it was designed specifically for plaintext email isn't correct. It was SMTP that was designed with support for only 7-bit ASCII in mind. Was that what you meant? TF> It always amazes me that many people think the internet was invented TF> by Outlook or AOL 6 or Al Gore... Internet invented by outlook? I must meet this person :) Gore, on the other hand, seems to have actively perpetuated that myth himself during the time he stood for election. Cheers, -Vishal ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
