<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The web was no big deal. Just a less capable NLS with graphics. Ho-hum. ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 13, 2015, at 12:42, Eric Gade <<a href="mailto:eric.gade@gmail.com" class="">eric.gade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">If we define "greatest accomplishment" as being one that led to the betterment of society, then the debate gets very interesting. When it comes to the Internet, it remains to be seen whether or not this is the case.<div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:14 PM, John Levine <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com" target="_blank" class="">johnl@iecc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">>straight ports of the ARPANET versions. It wasn't until we got to the Web that<br class="">
>we saw something sui generis.<br class="">
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</span>We IRC and gopher users feel very left out.<br class="">
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R's,<br class="">
John<br class="">
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