Kirk Wallace wrote: > > I hear that after DARPA got the Internet started, text based e-mail and > bulletin boards made it fairly popular for computer types, but > (personally, I wouldn't know), but it was adult entertainment that > really drove the network expansion and the popularity with non-computer > types. Now-a-days it's consumer driven. > Real porno certainly had its dark corner on the net, even back to the EARLIEST 300-baud dial-up modem days. And, as Youtube and others show, online video certainly has a BIG following, in fact I can't get my kind OFF the computer due to all the damn videos. My wife thought she'd get rid of TV by not buying a digital TV converter, but - HAH - they watch more video now than before, just in 2 minute chunks.
But, I'm not sure porno really was any kind of driving force in building the net. > I was exposed to Linux on bulletin boards, but didn't really pursue it > until the World Wide Web came about. If we were still in the bulletin > board age, EMC2 might not have gotten out of NIST's domain, although > it's hard to keep a good idea a secret. > Well, it probably would have gotten out, anyway. I started trying to set it up in 1997, and actually had EMC(1) running here in 1998. I was definitely still on dial-up at that time, at least at home. And, I DID find out about it from the net! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
