[ih] How Plato Influenced the Internet

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Mon Aug 23 14:21:03 PDT 2021


Brian

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 5:15 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Incidentally, re the subject line of this thread, I used to annoy Tim
> Berners-Lee by telling him that the web was "the fluff on top of the
> Internet". I think this discussion has confused matters a bit, because
> that's what PLATO presumably influenced, not the infrastructure.
>

As the one that made the error starting it originally - fair enough, I
could not agree more.  Mei culpa.
Clem
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