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Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Sun Apr 4 16:41:50 2010

In-Reply-To: <4BB8BE44.7050500@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:41:02 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> That the UUCP world developed links to "The Internet" (and FIDONet, and
> BITNET and ....) goes without saying. =A0But landing you Piper Cherokee a=
t
> LAX doesn't make you part of the Commercial Airline Industry.

That's how for some time the distinction between "internet" and
"Internet" was born.

Jorge


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