[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 18-Aug-23 14:01, Michael Thomas via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> On 8/17/23 6:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
>> On 17-Aug-23 12:23, Greg Skinner via Internet-history wrote:
>>> Dan Lynch gave some memories of the flag day (and some other things
>>> we’ve been discussing lately) in this Computer History Museum interview.
>>>
>>> https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2016/02/102717120-05-01-acc.pdf
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for that pointer. I liked this:
>>
>>>>> Lynch: We built it for remote login and file transfer, ok, access
>>>>> to remote resources that was its absolute thing. E-mail was an
>>>>> accident.
>>
>> In 1995, I'd have said of the CERN and HEP (high energy physics)
>> networks:
>>
>> "We built them for email, remote login and file transfer, ok, access
>> to remote resources. WWW was an accident."
>>
> In Where Wizards Stay Up Late, email was the accident. 

Sure, and the WWW was literally an afterthought, mentioned very
briefly in the Epilogue.

      Brian

I'm still
> endlessly shocked and amused that I had a hand in Her Emails in 2016.
> Not that I liked the outcome.
> 
> Mike
>