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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (567767)5/25/2010 11:19:47 PM
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"What makes the internet the internet is that its a wide spread connection of different computers and networks."

Tim, there were other WANs connecting different computers and networks. Until the late 1980s, there were probably many companies which had bigger networks than what eventually became the Internet. Heck, France had their whole country hooked up with their Minitel in the early 1980s.
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