From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>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.
I wasn't out to impress you Harvey, I've seen your resume and it's
very impressive.
I've held a few clearances myself, try EA6-A/B and PRP program for
buzz words and I got out of the military in 1979. I never said the
WELL and 1989 were my first exposure to the Internet or ARPANET.
Brian
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