Comment Re:Thanks Tim! (Score 2, Interesting) 267
Where did the military come into Markup Design ?
ARPANET with 4-nodes was up and running Dec '69, MILNET came after that
80 something iirc
Anyway the point of the thread is still valid, the freedom of the network provided the environment for free thinking and sharing of knowledge.
email, ftp, usenet etc etc came along
I was working at Reuters in late 70's and we developed a packet-switching network for some of thier early Financial systems
They couldn't have been the only ones !
TCP came in 82 or 83
Then the layered stuff like http / html and still technical freedom
These days the applications have too much control, but thanks to the afore mentioned stuff the underlying network and protocols provide an environment which should remain
ARPANET with 4-nodes was up and running Dec '69, MILNET came after that
80 something iirc
Anyway the point of the thread is still valid, the freedom of the network provided the environment for free thinking and sharing of knowledge.
email, ftp, usenet etc etc came along
I was working at Reuters in late 70's and we developed a packet-switching network for some of thier early Financial systems
They couldn't have been the only ones !
TCP came in 82 or 83
Then the layered stuff like http / html and still technical freedom
These days the applications have too much control, but thanks to the afore mentioned stuff the underlying network and protocols provide an environment which should remain
