I think its clear what he is trying to say is that the "web" wasn't around back then. People don't care about all the other "non-user friendly" stuff that existed like gofer etc. In 99% of people's minds web = internet. I have been using the web pretty much since mid to late 90's.
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--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, Jay Maynard <jmaynard@...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:52:48PM -0800, Roger Poyner wrote:
> > > Accepted etiquette on the Internet has been to quote and reply as I do
> > > for at least the last 30 years. Yes, it's been around that long, and
> > > then some
> > -----Problem is the internet hasn't been around that long.----
>
> It has indeed. You simply weren't around it then. It was around, connecting
> governments and academic institutions, in the early 1970s (then known as
> ARPANET), and switched to the TCP/IP protocols we all use now in 1983.
> ARPANET expanded dramatically, and its replacement (in management; nothing
> else really changed) by NSFNET in 1985, followed by NSFNET's opening to the
> commercial world in the early 1990s, produced the INternet we know today.
> --
> Jay Maynard, K5ZC, PP-ASEL, CFI-SP http://www.conmicro.com
> http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
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