CDR: Re: I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Wed Oct 18 19:45:49 PDT 2000


At 03:29 PM 10/18/00 -0400, jim bell wrote:
>I ask this, what I believe would be an excellent idea for an article: Why
>didn't the Internet develop even faster than it actually did?  9600 bps
>modems existed in 1986, not all that far in performance behind 28Kbps units.
>By 1986, numerous clones of the IBM PC and AT existed.

Its quite simple.  In 1995 MS released a version of Windoze which
included a TCP/IP stack by default.  Previously you had to acquire
one and figure out how to install it.  While fortunes were made
on this, the collection of routers known as the Net was unavailable
to Joe Sixpack until then.





 






  









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