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

[petro]

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>Usenet and mailing lists were usable by the cognoscenti from the 
>mid-80s up to the "modern age." Using gopher and Archie and 
>anonymous ftp was for the cognoscenti only, though. Not much fun for 
>ordinary folks.
>
>This obviously all changed around 1994, with Mosaic/Netscape. "Point 
>and click" cleared the way. The illusion of "going to" a site (URLs) 
>did the trick.
>
>Faster computers weren't important, in my view. Better screens were 
>only slightly important. Modem speeds were more important.

	I'd say the most important thing was content.

	The content that existed pre-94/95 was only interesting to 
those who liked their amusements with something vaguely resembling 
"intellectual" content, or the computer "cognoscenti". 
Mosaic/Nutscrape changed that.
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