kevinmcl@magma.ca wrote:
They did it that way because it worked.
They also use MS Outlook and make up for its shortcomings by spending literally millions of $$$ on anti virus software. "because it worked" or "because it required the least amount of thought or competence"?
Oh, and I especially liked this bit from Carl:
'Windoze Users' and shall be shunned by all who honor the good and noble traditions which created the Internet.
That was written by Steven T. Hatton. Correct attribution is to me the most important part of netiquette.
The network proved to have utility for those reasons and for other reasons, so it gradually expanded to include other institutions of higher learning. Then, it just sat there for a while, with not a whole lot of improvement, until business came along.
The www was invented at CERN before business came along. Since then there have been a precious few new inventions. It's mostly been just polish since then. Anders