Re: Clarification and limited apology

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 12:59:41 MST


Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote,
>That's right, I was there

>I've been on the Internet since administrators used
>to ask you to keep off their systems during the day

>remember spending alot
>of time at the site at CERN and playing with an interesting text
>based system the creator was calling the world wide web. I still
>have the E-mail I got back from him thanking me for my comments and
>telling me they were working on a GUI for it, and after that he
>hoped it would really take off... Need I even bother mentioning his
>name?

Puh-lease....

I had a top-secret clearance and was building Arpanet before you knew
what a network was. I invented network technology and helped debug
protocols before the Internet converted to TCP/IP. I debuged network
links before we had a connection to Europe. I was an admin years
before ISPs like yours (The Well) were allowed on the Internet. I
was probably one of those admins who asked you users to stay out of
my way.

Your talk of the "early days" is about two decades too late to impress me.

-- 
Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>



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