CDR: RE: Mac created the modern Internet

[Lucky Green]

Tim wrote:
> AOL and CompuServe were dragged kicking and screaming into the modern
> age. A friend of mine was using AOL, against my advice, and finally
> dropped them in favor of Earthlink, around 1996. As of that time,
> they were still making promises on when their customers would be
> given real access to the Web.

Yup. AOL and CompuServe came way late into the IP game. IIRC, well after
TIA.

> By the way, on a historical note, I was a Netcom customer when Netcom
> began offering their own proprietary Web browser solution. I don't
> even recall what they called it. It only ran under Windows, so we Mac
> users had to look elsewhere for our ISPs.

Net Cruiser. It was a logical step to take for Netcom, given the state of IP
client software for Windows at the time, but made obsolete pretty much the
moment it was released by TIA.

--Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to>

  "Anytime you decrypt... its against the law".
   Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America in
   a sworn deposition, 2000-06-06