"first" computer on the internet

[Diane Bruce]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:34:00PM -0400, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> >>>> When did Mosaic come out?  If you want to pick a point in time when
> the Internet changed from a specialist tool to a worldwide utility,
> that would be the one.
>
> Mosaic made the WEB into a public tool, but remember, the web is just one
> application residing on the Internet.

gopher, veronica....

It's hugely funny or sad to see domain registrar's automatically
prefixing domain names with 'www'. I have often joked to others that
we could safely remove the destination port from tcp/ip packets, after
all, it's always going to be port 80 right? We could save two bytes
per packet. (Again, I was joking! apart from DNS and e-mail not working
it would work fine right? ;-) )

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