[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Michael Thomas]

On 8/17/23 7:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 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.
>
I remember seeing hyperlink tech at DECUS probably in the mid to late 
80's? What the internet brought was reach.

Mike