[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Michael Thomas]

On 8/17/23 8:02 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 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.
>
I guess what it shows is that the network effect -- yet again -- is the 
key ingredient. But I think that the web was very intertwined with mixed 
media. The DECUS kiosks I saw were pretty boring since it was all 
just... text.

Mike