[pressgang] Episode 6 - INTERFACE

[Vince Deehan]

Thanks Claire for the kind words.

Thanks Calum for the Internet background info.

Vince

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 11:43 AM Calum Benson <scottishwildcat at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 21 Feb 2022, at 17:17, Katarina Hjärpe <katarina.hjarpe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Den mån 21 feb. 2022 kl 14:57 skrev Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com
> >:
> > The very early use of the Internet, given that it was filmed in 1988, is
> pretty mind blowing. I guess it wasn’t called ‘The Internet’ at that time.
> I’m no expert, but I am guessing the technology they are using had been
> around for quite some time for use by scientists and computer boffins and
> high tech industries, but had only recently started to be available to the
> public?
> >
> > I think it was called the Internet, because when I was doing a study
> among online fans around 2000 and asked them how many of them had been
> around before the Internet, I got lectured about how old the Internet was.
> I've forgotten how old it was, though! :-)
>
> <boring nerd stuff>
>
> Yep, the term "internet" was coined in 1974 [1]. The first bit of the
> "internet", called ARPANET, was developed in the late 1960's. As Vince
> says, though, the internet only really connected educational and government
> institutions until well into the 1980's.
>
> Surprisingly, it was 1992 before the first dial-up internet services
> became available for people to use at home. (Things like bulletin boards,
> AOL and CompuServe existed before that, but they were standalone services
> that weren't technically part of "the internet".)
>
> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc675
>
> </boring nerd stuff>
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