[124641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Sat Apr 3 04:04:56 2010
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:03:41 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3135E5A4-A45F-44A3-A01D-A86F71988E45@delong.com>
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Owen DeLong wrote:
> It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected to the internet. It was expected that most things connecting to the internet would be minicomputers and mainframes.
It took some visionary and creative thinking to "come up" with the
internet. But given such a train of thought the idea of everyone being
connected isn't such a wild idea. I can imagine it'd be almost a given.
Although if I get the time frame right in those days you had 2 camps,
those (ibm, dec...) who believed that there was no need for home
computers and you only needed a few (hundred?) thousand big mainframes
and minicomputers and those (commodore, apple...) who believed
(rightfully so) there was going to be a big future and demand for home
computers.
So I guess depending on what "camp" you were in, it's not that strange
to not envision all these household computers being interconnected.
Greetings,
Jeroen
