[ih] what is and isn't the web, was Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol

wayne at playaholic.com wayne at playaholic.com
Mon Aug 22 07:00:36 PDT 2016


> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:32:22 -0400, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
> If there were any two things that drew immediate resistance from that 
> early group it was: this is how telephones work or this is the way 
> IBM does it!! ;-) Both were considered (for better or worse) prime 
> examples of how to be overly complex. 

Being stuck on an IBM 360 running TSS at the time, I definitely 
remember that! :-)
 
wayne
 





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