Linux and growth of Internet

[Gavin Thomas Nicol]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Tom Jennings wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
>
>> Yep. Once TCP/IP really took off, the rest, as they say, was history.
>
> But the precursor to all of that was the fact that it stopped
> being government funded; only non-commercial uses were allowed.

Perhaps... I think the real pressure was a social one. BBS's (I ran one 
on a hacked WWIV(?) for a while in Japan), AOL etc. and corporate email 
gave people a desire to find ways to communicate. Once social pressure 
built, the path of least resistance was taken IMHO.

> It's also simply *NOT TRUE* that industry created the internet,
> like many of them fabricate; it was quite well developed loooong
> before business got there.

I never said industry did: quite the opposite if anything. Industry 
*used* the Internet, and thereby raised awareness of it.