Linux and growth of Internet

[Gavin Thomas Nicol]

On Jan 13, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
> Regular folk with Windows/Mac machines were signing up for these
> accounts, not just tech weenies, for all the reasons that email was
> popular.

Not only that, but because of Windows/Mac TCP/IP, corporations really 
jumped on the bandwagon too, and they allowed more liberal access to 
the Internet. It was like people suddenly discovered the Internet, and 
in the space of a couple of years, everyone was doing email. The WWW 
really helped to push things along too... URL's and the browsers made 
it much easier to do things, than say, remembering to ftp to 
gatekeeper.dec.com. Linux had nothing to do with most of this... most 
of the early web servers were on other platforms.

> You want a technical change to point to? I'd point to TCP/IP coming
> to Windows and the Mac.

Yep. Once TCP/IP really took off, the rest, as they say, was history.