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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (564353)5/3/2010 5:32:16 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1576127
 
"The "It" was the internet."

What are you trying to say here?

"Not what I think of the Internet, the Internet existed long before web pages."

It depends on what you mean by "existed". It wasn't formally called the Internet until the late 1980s. When I was on it in the early to mid-1980s, no one called it the Internet. We talked about Usenet, Archie, gopher, etc.

"Exactly, and the use of each of those features, isn't what defines it as the Internet."

Nonsense. The Internet is composed of its services. That is what defines it. Now, some of those services are dependent on the protocols. The Web would have been very different if HyperCard had caught on instead of HTML.
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