[ih] deterioration of email (was Re: clever usc creation)

[John Levine]

It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
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>When I was at Oracle and first heard about the Web in the early 90s, I 
>remember paying someone a nominal amount ($50?) for a software license, 
>probably for a browser on a PC, to learn what this new Web thing was all 
>about.  A bit later lots of free software became available, but very 
>early on you had to buy it or build your own.

That sounds like Cello, which Tom Bruce wrote for the Cornell Legal
Institute.  It was as far as I know the first PC browser, and since
it was owned by a bunch of lawyers, they did lawyer stuff and charged
for the source code.

There was at the time plenty of free web software that ran on X Window
and Tim's which ran on Next.

R's,
John

>> Uh, what? Tim got CERN to give away his original software in 1993, UC
>> Berkeley gave away Viola, SLAC gave away Midas, and most importantly
>> NCSA gave away Mosaic and HTTPd.