[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Michael Thomas]

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

Mike