[e2e] It's all my fault

[Greg Skinner]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:33:03PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > There was *no* commercial market for any of this stuff back then,
> 
> Surely there was just as much demand for communications between people as
> there is now. I do not think human nature radically changed in the last
> half century.  In fact, the market for "the Internet" was created not by
> availability of TCP/IP networks, but by the lowly BBSes, e-mail, and
> USENET.  Neither of which depended on anything developed by DARPA-funded
> research.

DARPA-funded research provided computing resources upon which email,
USENET, Unix, etc. were extended and popularized.

--gregbo