On July 14, 2014 at 08:17 d...@dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker) wrote:
> On 7/12/2014 3:19 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> > On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:
> > > or are you equating shell access with isp? that would be novel. unix
> > > shell != internet.
> >
> > You mean when you sat at a unix shell using a dumb terminal on a
> > machine attached to the internet in, say, 1986 you didn't think you
> > were "on the internet"?
>
>
> An question with more nuance than most folk tend to realize:
>
> To Be "On" the Internet
>
> March, 1995
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1775
How about "Vicarious Access":
No physical connection but people keep coming into your office to tell
about some dopey thing they just read or saw on the internet.
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