Xah Lee's Unixism

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:00:23 GMT
Morten Reistad <firstname at lastname.pr1v.n0> wrote:

> Since I am on a roll with timelines; just one off the top of my head : 
> 
> Project start     : 1964
> First link        : 1969
> Transatlantic     : 1972 (to Britain and Norway)
> Congested         : 1976
> TCP/IP            : 1983 (the effort started 1979) (sort of a 2.0 version)
> First ISP         : 1983 (uunet, EUnet followed next year)
> Nework Separation : 1983 (milnet broke out)
> Large-scale design: 1987 (NSFnet, but still only T3/T1's)
> Fully commercial  : 1991 (WIth the "CIX War")
> Web launced       : 1992
> Web got momentum  : 1994
> Dotcom bubble     : 1999 (but it provided enough bandwith for the first time)
> Dotcom burst      : 2001

	One thing I always found amusing is the amount of science *fiction*
written in the first half of this period about what would happen if the
worlds computers became linked together.

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