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Re: Webmaster?

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:06:40AM -0600, Shannon Brostad wrote:
> Lol, I don't know what to say. Touché. Althogh I will say that an
> email account with no Internet is like having a computer with no
> wall outlet, a car without roads, a boat in the middle of a desert
> (?).  

Erm.

The internet is a network of machines connected via TCP/IP.  The web
is not the internet.  Before the web we had usenet (archives are at
http://groups.google.com/ , for example
http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=nhpsfg&q=alt&qt_s=Search+for+a+group
, and they're still in active use), ftp, telnet, and gopher, which
was the closest thing to the web when it came along.

Just a little history lesson.  :)

-Robin

-- 
They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm  thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other  than  the default  outcome?"  See http://shrunklink.com/cdiz
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/