On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 10:57 AM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> It is funny, but truth be told we dodged a massive bullet by going with > the "Internet" and TCP/IP as opposed to the nightmare of AT&T Connect, > IPX, and the blazing speeds of TWO! ISDN B channels. > > I was there. I remember X.400, and how NDS was going to be the directory > system that bound us all together in hell forever. I remember everything... > > We missed living in that crap-sack universe by six months or so. Fortunately, in the US the net wasn't run by the Post Office so the mammals were out of the bag and fruitfully multiplying long before the rest of the world caught on and started forming committees to create camel-shaped dinosaurs to perform the same functions. As a result most of those things were fairly short-term distractions for most of the internet as, for example, it quickly became evident that nobody was going to pay postage on email haha.
