Xah Lee's Unixism

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Kåre Olai Lindbach wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:55:28 +0100, "Alan J. Flavell"
> <flavell at ph.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, John Thingstad wrote:
> >
> >> It was the realization of www (CERN) that spawned the movement toward the
> >> Internet.
> >
> >Eh?
> 
> http://www.hitmill.com/internet/web_history.asp

> Or rather the history of Tim Berners-Lee.

Try http://www.w3.org/History.html

I'm sorry - I didn't really mean to trap anyone into trying to
teach Great-Uncle Alan how to suck eggs.

It's just that those of us who had /some/ contact with the original 
developments (and mine was fairly tenuous, I confess) would have told 
the story of the development of the /Internet/ quite differently. But 
I leave that to other "old farts" who are already posting their 
versions ;-)

I've no disagreement that the availability of a graphical web browser 
was -one- of the driving forces towards wider access to and 
commercialisation of the Internet.  But that didn't emerge on any kind 
of scale until 1994-ish and later.   

"Eternal September" dates from 1993.  To toss just another data point 
into the ring.