On April 29, 2004 at 11:47 tthomson(_at_)neosinteractive(_dot_)com (Tom
Thomson) wrote:
Barry Shein <bzs(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com> wrote:
Before 1989 you couldn't buy a connection to the internet unless you
could show some bona-fide usage (defense contracting, and towards the
very end of that era, being a university), and then if you were
approved hook-up was basically free.
Strange. I was using the internet (the network interconnecting arpanet,
nfsnet, janet, and various other xxxnets) about the end of 1985 or beginning
Well, by nfsnet I assume you mean NSFNET, as in the US National
Science Foundation, came into being in 1988, JANET first started IP
service in 1991, and the rest of your note is just about as reliable
for facts (which is to say, not at all.)
But, fwiw, I probably should have said "internet via DARPAnet" rather
than just internet although, as with the assertion above, you seem to
have created a lot more interconnections than existed (the "very end
of that era" was a reference to the 1988 NSFNET.)
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