[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 18-Aug-23 14:30, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
> 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.

Of course. Tim Berners-Lee showed me his own hyperlink technology
in 1980, and he didn't invent the idea.

     Brian